Amazon Web Services (AWS) · 2 weeks ago
Sr System Development Engineer, PCIe, SI, Performance, AWS Hardware Components
Cupertino, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$136K/yr - $235K/yr
5+ years expAmazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. The role involves engineering server hardware and software, focusing on high-speed interconnects, particularly PCIe, to ensure high performance and reliability in AWS EC2 server instances.
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Responsibilities
You’ll join a diverse team of hardware engineers, software engineers, system engineers, technical program 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
As a cloud server performance engineer, you’ll work on Amazon’s hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that meet or exceed the high performance bar, with focus on high speed interconnects, including PCIe
You will interact with internal and external interdisciplinary teams of engineers to design, develop, validate, launch, monitor and troubleshoot high throughput interfaces at scale
You will be on the team that is responsible for PCIe topology for the EC2 servers, including retimer and switch firmware and telemetry
Qualification
Required
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
5+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
5+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
5+ years of experience identifying & root-causing hardware/software system issues in large scale systems
5+ years of experience writing and implementing functional and performance tests for manufacturing and in field coverage, including telemetry
5+ year of experience with customer support for successive debugging/root-causing bus interconnect failures
Preferred
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
5+ years of experience with high speed interconnect, including PCIe
5+ years of experience with CPU and memory architectures, system performance, security and troubleshooting
5+ years experience with statistical analysis using large scale data
Benefits
Flexibility as part of our working culture
Endless knowledge-sharing
Mentorship and other career-advancing resources
Company
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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BIRD Foundation
2025-01-22Grant
Leadership Team
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Chief Executive Officer
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