Sr. System Development Engineer, AWS Mainstream Compute
Job Description
The AWS Mainstream Compute team drives system innovation in the servers used across all major Amazon Web Services - EC2, S3, DynamoDB etc. Our engineers solve the hardest problems that fuse software, hardware, and the cloud. We take big bets on new concepts, enabling AWS services to continue to revolutionize the industry.
As a Senior System Development Engineer, you will build and own the software services used to test, monitor quality, performance and efficiency of server components across their full lifecycle in AWS fleet. You'll work with world-class software developers to create innovative, scalable solutions for real-world data center infrastructure problems.
Why it matters: Public cloud IT services represent the majority of growth in the overall IT services market. AWS's scale creates unique opportunities for component customization that directly benefit customers. You'll have direct impact on our bottom line and ability to deliver improvements for developers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and validate software for testing and benchmarking server components
- Work on diverse technology domains from embedded software to large-scale distributed systems
- Develop innovative services for validating, managing and monitoring critical components
- Ensure software achieves its goals in operational reality
- Partner across teams to deliver results
- Own system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance
- Mentor other engineers and help grow the team
The role offers:
- Work with cutting-edge cloud technology
- Direct impact on AWS infrastructure
- Growth opportunities through mentorship
- Inclusive team culture
- Work-life harmony
- Comprehensive benefits including medical insurance, 401k, equity, and parental leave
Join us to help keep the cloud running and deliver innovation that millions of AWS customers rely on daily.
Responsibilities For Sr. System Development Engineer, AWS Mainstream Compute
- Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture/design/working software solutions
- Code and test system components; participate in code and design reviews
- Demonstrate ownership of end-to-end code quality, system tests, functional tests, and integration
- Partner/Collaborate across teams/roles to deliver results
- Be responsible for overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance
- Mentor other engineers, define the technical culture, and help grow the team
Requirements For Sr. System Development Engineer, AWS Mainstream Compute
- 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
- 4+ years of designing or architecting 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
- 4+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
- Experience leading the design, build and deployment of complex and performant software solutions in production
Benefits For Sr. System Development Engineer, AWS Mainstream Compute
- Medical Insurance
- 401k
- Equity
- Parental Leave
