Sr. System Development Engineer, AWS Mainstream Compute

Overview

AWS Hardware Engineering Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global compute systems. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

As a member of the Server Hardware Engineering team you will own and lead the design and development of server products utilizing a wide range of design and manufacturing partners.

You will work closely with our customers to understand their technical needs and business goals.

To deliver your products you will work with an interdisciplinary team of component, firmware, test, qualification, and integration engineers, and lead our design and manufacturing partners to bring these servers to the data center. After launch you will oversee the fleet of servers you develop, monitoring their quality and how they are meeting the customer requirements.

This is a fast‑paced, intellectually challenging position, and you’ll work with thought leaders in multiple technology areas. You’ll have high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you’ll be constantly looking for ways to improve your products' performance, quality, and cost. We’re changing an industry, and we want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.

Why you will love it:
You will work directly with a talented team of engineers and product owners across the company to create next‑generation hardware. You will have a direct impact on your customer's success, drive the development of the Cloud, and have a meaningful impact on Amazon's success. You will be part of a growing, fast‑paced, and fun team.

• You will be a technical leader solving complex problems. You will decompose big, difficult server system testability, reliability, and diagnosis problems into straightforward tasks, components or features that you will lead to deliver yourself and through others in parallel. You will use a combination of hardware, software, system designs, x86 architecture, processes, diagnosis, and operations knowledge.

Working with a variety of job roles (SDEs, SDETs, Hardware Engineers, TPMs, Managers, Principals) and groups (AWS Hardware Engineering, EC2, other AWS services) through server conception, design, test, launch, and operations. Driving high quality and reliability into future/new designs for AWS server solutions for AWS Cloud.

• 4+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 4+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
• 4+ years of systems development in an IT or data center environment experience
• 3+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, Power Shell, Ruby experience
• 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 2+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
• Experience leading the design, build and deployment of complex and performant (reliable and scalable) software solutions in production

• 3+ years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life…