You will be a member of the larger HWEngS Storage organization and will lead ideation, design and implementation of software automation projects in the Solid-State Drive (SSD) team. You will work with peers and cross-functional experts to build software services that automate workflows for the complete life-cycle (qualifications, monitoring, diagnostics, firmware updates, replacements, EOL) of SSDs and storage platforms at AWS scale.
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 software automation projects with the end goal of improving SSD components’ quality used in NPI servers (New Product Introductions) and sustaining fleet servers. As a technical leader you will bring 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 experience in architecting software services that automate previously manual workflows. Given our scale, it is critical to design tools, tests, infrastructure that are future proof, scale and are stable. 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
The AWS Hardware Engineering Services (HWEngS) 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. - 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelor's degree- 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology
- Strong understanding of OS internals, most notably storage subsystems in a Linux-based environment
- Strong understanding or motivation to learn drive (SSD and/or HDD) technologies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to collaborate
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/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
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