System Development Engineer, AI/ML (Accelerator) Server

Amazon • Cupertino, CA

18h

About The Position

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 (HWEng) 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 is knowledgeable of the full technical stack,
from hardware up to the software. You have tremendous interest in cloud scale
and curious how systems and software decisions impact users. You insist on the
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!

What will you do?
You will be a member of the larger HWEng Storage organization and will lead
ideation, design and implementation of new automation capabilities in the
Solid-State Drive (SSD) team. These components are used by all of AWS server
platform teams, e.g. AI/ML servers, storage servers, compute servers, etc. Given
the sheer number of programs that this team supports and the scale at which
Amazon operates, you will be expected to pitch new automation initiatives
optimize existing ones, and lead the SysDE community to eliminate tactical and
redundant manual efforts.

You will work with engineers across the company for delivering the
next-generation AWS Storage 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.

AWS Engineers are shaping the way people use computers and designing the future
of cloud computing technology – come help us make history!

Why it matters: Public cloud IT services represent the majority of growth in the
overall IT services market and will continue to do so for several years to come.
The scale of AWS, combined with an understanding of how our hardware is used,
creates a unique opportunity for component customization that will directly
benefit customers.

Why you will love it: You will work with engineers across the company to build
next-generation storage servers. You will have a direct impact on our bottom
line and the ability to deliver improvements for our developers. 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

• 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 administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby

Nice To Haves

• Experience with PowerShell (preferred), Python, Ruby, or Java
• Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology

Responsibilities

• You will be a member of the Solid-State Drives (SSDs) team, responsible for delivering high quality SSDs that seamlessly integrate into your customers’ products on a timely fashion and consistently enhance the quality and performance of customers’ products, fostering long-term partnerships.
• You will lead and develop automation with the end goal of improving SSD components’ quality used in NPI servers (New Product Introductions) and sustaining fleet servers.
• Key Responsibilities for this position include leading and implementing software (SW) best practices, author requirement documents for new architecture, publish comprehensive design docs along with trade-offs, SW development, testing and building diagnostic tools for continuous monitoring.
• Given our scale, it is critical to design tools, tests, infra that are future proof, scale and are stable.
• A SysDE in this position ideally has an understanding of server design and architecture to improve security, telemetry and debugging of hosts in production across ARM and x86.
• A successful candidate also has a growth mindset, learns fast, deep dives to solve variety of issues, and acts quickly to bring timely resolution to customers.

Benefits

• Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed