SoftwareDevEngineerII,EBS

Join the team that powers one of AWS's most critical services - Elastic Block Store (EBS)! The EBS Placement team builds systems that optimize how millions of storage volumes are distributed across AWS's vast infrastructure. Our work directly impacts every EBS customer, from startups to the world's largest enterprises, who rely on us to serve exabytes of data and trillions of I/Os daily. We are seeking talented engineers to help evolve how we place EBS volumes on storage servers. We tackle complex technical challenges at massive scale - from optimizing storage density and improving I/O performance to ensuring data durability/availability in the face of multitude of failure modes. You'll work on distributed systems that make real-time decisions about where to place customer data while balancing multiple competing objectives including performance, availability, durability, and cost-effectiveness. What makes our team unique is the opportunity to work at the intersection of infrastructure optimization and customer experience. When you join us, you'll be part of evolving how EBS delivers storage services at unprecedented scale and configurability. We're working on exciting initiatives like building predictable performance guarantees for storage operations, developing intelligent resource modeling and simulation systems, and creating next-generation placement algorithms that will enable us to serve more customers with better performance while optimizing resource utilization. If you're excited about solving complex distributed systems problems that directly impact millions of customers, we'd love to talk to you! A day in the life What makes this role exciting is that every day brings new challenges as customer workloads grows and storage technology evolves. You'll be at the forefront of ensuring that millions of chunks of data/workload are placed just right across vast EBS storage fleet. Much of your time will be hands-on with our systems. You might be: * Designing and wri