Amazon · 1 month ago
Sr System Development Engineer, PCIe, SI, Performance, AWS Hardware Components
Cupertino, California, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$136K/yr - $235K/yr
5+ years expAmazon is a leading cloud services provider and is seeking a Senior System Development Engineer to enhance their engineering of server hardware and software. The role involves building high-quality systems focused on performance and high-speed interconnects, collaborating with diverse teams to ensure optimal functionality.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
AWS hardware Engineering is looking for a customer-obsessed, team-driven technology leader to take our engineering of server hardware and software to the next level
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
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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