System Development Engineer, Hardware Engineering

System Development Engineer, Hardware Engineering

Job ID: 2752514 | Amazon Data Services, Inc.

The AWS Hardware Engineering team is driving rapid innovation in the server and storage infrastructure used by Amazon Web Services. Our designs are industry-leading in frugality and operational excellence, and are critical to the success of the AWS business and the more than one million customers who use AWS today. Our Firmware Engineers solve challenging technology problems and build architecturally sound, high-quality components to enable AWS to realize critical business strategies.

The Amazon SSD team is a distinct component team supporting EC2 Storage and EBS product teams today with SSD solutions; future products will support other product teams including potentially S3 and EC2 Compute. Amazon SSD is a strategic AWS initiative, to own the full software and hardware stack above the NAND to drive down TCO for Flash-based storage while improving operational excellence for the storage platform. This allows AWS to optimize performance for AWS platform workloads and deliver the best operational experience for our customers.

The ideal candidate for this role will be an innovative self-starter. You will be an SSD test validation expert with experience in validating SSD operation and performance for a variety of use cases. You will be a member of the HWEng Storage team and will interact with engineers across the team and company to lead and develop automation and infrastructure capabilities to improve SSD drive operational health, qualification, and integration across all of supported AWS storage server platforms. You will work with engineers within the team and across the company to lead firmware test development efforts on custom solid-state devices. You will collaborate with internal and external development engineers (architecture, hardware, product, software services). AWS Engineers are shaping the way people use computers and designing the future of cloud computing technology – come help us make history!

What you will do: You will be a member of a team that will be validating AWS-specific firmware and software for non-volatile memory devices, including NAND-based SSDs. You will be a part of the validation effort from conception, through validation and into production. You will contribute to test development and support infrastructure maintenance and enhancement efforts. Key Responsibilities for this position include authoring requirements specifications for new feature and infrastructure ideas, system design, and development, all while testing at each phase.

Key job responsibilities:

1. Must have leadership experience developing automation software, spanning across multiple teams and multiple organizations.
2. Must have experience designing and building system-level software at scale, with an emphasis on durability, availability, security, and diagnostics.
3. Must have a strong understanding of SSDs and validation experience.
4. Must have demonstrated experience debugging Linux boot and runtime problems on ARM and x86.
5. Must have demonstrated experience developing tools to perform testing running on Linux-based systems.
6. Must have experience hands-on development of automation software in at least one modern language, such as Python, Ruby, Java, or others.
7. Desirable to have an understanding of AWS services, specifically, S3, Lambda.
8. Desirable to have an understanding of drive (SSD) technology.
9. Desirable to have an understanding of Jenkins, pipelines.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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 programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby.
- 4+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience.
- 3+ 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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations.
- Deep understanding of SSD concepts such as wear-leveling, garbage collection, etc.
- Experience taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers.
- Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems, and hands-on systems engineering.
- 4+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment with experience in debugging driver issues and developing tools.
- 4+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, PowerShell, Ruby experience.
- Excellent written communication and verbal skills.
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.

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