Sr. Systems Development Engineer (AWS Generative AI & ML Servers), AWS HW Engineering

About the role

The AWS Hardware Engineering team creates server designs for Amazon's innovative web services. Our designs are industry-leading in frugality and operational excellence, and are critical to the success of the AWS business and millions of customers who use AWS today. Our engineers solve challenging technology problems, and build architecturally sound, high-quality components to enable AWS to realize critical business strategies.

Responsibilities

• You will work with engineers across the company for delivering the next-generation AWS platforms. You will have a direct impact on our bottom line and the ability to deliver improvements for AWS.
• You will be part of a growing, fast-paced, and fun team. You will have ownership for the implementation of your work.
• You will see direct product improvements based on the results of your work.
• You will work with engineers across the company for delivering the next-generation AWS platforms. You will have a direct impact on our bottom line and the ability to deliver improvements for AWS.
• You will be part of a growing, fast-paced, and fun team. You will have ownership for the implementation of your work.
• You will see direct product improvements based on the results of your work.

Requirements

• You are knowledgeable of the full technical stack - vertically from baremetal server hardware up to the software in userland, and everything in the middle.
• You have tremendous interest in cloud scale and curious how systems and software decisions impact the user.
• You insist on highest standards and are able to develop tactical solutions/tools to diagnose and fix issues.
• You are an excellent systems debugger - finding interaction issues between components on server systems.
• You are a leader with strong organizational, planning, and communication skills.
• You are a builder!

Qualifications

• 4+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience with x86 architecture, as well as ARM, and GPU/ FPGA devices
• Experience with modern technology devices in storage, network, memory as well as a variety of interface standards and protocols (I2C, IPMI, SPI, PCIe)
• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical degree, or relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years or more in software development, systems development, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), or Resilience Engineering
• 7+ years of SysDE (Systems Development Engineer) or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of server systems debug experience; debugging and root causing complex server platforms
• 7+ years of experience contributing towards increasing durability, security, availability and scalability of systems through exploration, diagnosis and remediation
• Linux kernel and user-space drivers experience for PCIe and external devices
• System thinking - ability to diagnose interactions between discrete components of server system and drive product improvements.
• Strong focus on reliability, scale and diagnostics (including developing tactical and strategic tools using Python, Go, C/C++)
• Solid understanding of OS internals, including network and storage subsystem
• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
• Experience with modern technology devices in storage, network, memory as well as a variety of interface standards and protocols (PCIe, SATA, SAS, NVMe)
• Experience with validation of hardware, software, firmware and drivers and implementing test plans
• Experience with server validation, testing, issue root causing and coverage analysis
• Excellent knowledge diagnostics tools development with Python, Go, or C/C++ in fast paced environment
• Extensive Linux knowledge

Benefits

At Amazon, we offer a competitive benefits package that includes:

• Health insurance
• Retirement savings plan
• Flexible spending accounts
• Telemedicine services
• Wellness programs
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program
• Learning and development opportunities

Pay

Base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Schedule

Full-time position.