Sr System Developer Engineer

The Edge, and Specialized HW Engineering team drives system innovation and NPI development for the servers platforms used by all of Amazon Web Services, including EC2, S3, Archival Storage, and CloudFront. Our engineers solve the hardest problems that fuse software, hardware, and cloud systems. We take big bets on new concepts, enabling AWS services to continue to revolutionize the industry.

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 millions of 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.

We are looking for a Senior Systems Development Engineer to own Network Interface Controllers (NICs) for our cloud server infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of networking, hardware architecture, and software development to deliver high-performance, low-latency NIC system level design. This role is critical in ensuring the optimal performance and scalability of our AWS platforms.

Key job responsibilities

You will lead the performance evaluation, system design, integration, and validation of NIC components for the server platforms in AWS. You will work and influence different teams and domain experts in both HW and SW to ensure the optimal performance of our Networking platform solutions.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience

- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

- 4+ years of systems development in an IT or data center environment experience

- 4+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment 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

- Experience debugging, integrating, validating NICs for Data Centers, Cloud Computing, and/or Networking Infrastructure

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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 cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations

- Experience taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers

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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 Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $235,200/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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