System Development Engineer II, OEM Solid State Drives Team

Utility Computing (UC) AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, youll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key job 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. A successful candidate in this role has prior hands-on SSD debugging experience on Linux systems and familiarity with kernel drivers and OS level software. 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.

About the team
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- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
- 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)

- Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology
- Strong coding skills with focus on reliability, scale and diagnostics (including developing tactical and strategic tools using Python, Go, C/C++ or any other suitable high level language).

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.