Senior Software Engineer, FSx Lustre

Overview

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help revolutionize cloud file storage for workloads like GPU-heavy AI/ML workloads, high-performance computing (HPC), and enterprise applications. Launched in 2018, Amazon FSx for Lustre is an AWS service that provides fully managed, high-performance file storage for some of the most critical and largest-scale workloads running on AWS today. With Amazon FSx, you can provision a Lustre parallel file system that can process massive data sets at up to hundreds of gigabytes per second of throughput, millions of IOPS, and sub-millisecond latencies.

Customers love the service, and we’re just getting started. Join the AWS engineering team in our Boston Seaport location overlooking the Fort Point channel as we revolutionize the world of high performance computing (HPC) and cloud storage.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will design and build transformative new customer experiences on Amazon FSx for Lustre. Delivering a reliable and high-performance service at AWS scale requires engineers with deep technical expertise and creativity. At Amazon, we expect engineers to interact with customers, understand business goals, innovate rapidly, and deliver high-quality, ground-breaking functionality. Embark on a journey with us to build a new service for AWS.

We need your passion, ideas, and creativity to shape the future of a nascent service at Amazon scale with a team that is smart, customer-focused, and fun to work with.

• Lead key software initiatives for the FSx for Lustre service
• Mentor and teach junior engineers
• Design, architect, develop, deliver, and operate file system capabilities
• Work with product managers, principal engineers, and senior leadership to define and deliver on the technical strategy for FSx

About AWS
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• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor s degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with distributed systems, large-scale applications, kernel/C development, file systems

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