Sr. System Development Engineer, Storage Systems Team - Amazon : Job Details

Job ID: 2874529 | Amazon Data Services, Inc.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. 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.

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 the more than one million 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.

The ideal candidate for this role will have a proven track record of rapidly coming up to speed on new engineering disciplines, making impactful decisions within that space, and have experience gluing together components written by more specialized engineers to create a cohesive, well-running engineering product. AWS Engineers are shaping the way people use computers and designing the future of cloud computing technology – come help us make history!

You will be a member of the HWEng Storage Systems team and will interact with engineers across the company to lead the development of AWS storage servers and devices. Key Responsibilities for this position include authoring requirements specifications, system design, and development, all while testing at each phase. There are two main areas of focus for this position: software test development and integration to enable storage hardware, and system debugging for production hosts.

• 5+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience
• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 5+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
• 5+ years of Linux Storage experience and experience building, installing and debugging storage device drivers.

• 10+ years of leadership experience developing automation software, spanning across multiple teams and multiple organizations.
• 10+ years of experience designing and building system-level software at scale, with an emphasis on durability, availability, security, and diagnostics.
• Must have a strong understanding of OS internals, most notably storage subsystems in a Linux-based environment.
• Must have demonstrated experience with building and troubleshooting device drivers for Linux on ARM and x86.
• Must have demonstrated experience debugging Linux boot and runtime problems on ARM and x86.
• Desirable to have an understanding of AWS services, specifically, distributed storage systems and use of storage hardware.

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