Amazon Data Services, Inc.
Technology
Sr.SystemDevelopmentEngineer
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“Sr. System Development Engineer at Amazon Data Services, Inc.. Skills: System development, Automation, Cloud infrastructure. Lead development of automation software. Build scalable systems”
Industry & Context.
Systems debugger; Diagnose issues; Fix issues
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years programming, 5+ years software development, 5+ years systems design, 5+ years systems development, 5+ years Linux/Unix environment, 5+ years automation experience, Experience leading design, Experience building complex software
Nice to Have
Knowledge of engineering practices, Experience leading complex software delivery
What You'll Do.
Lead development of automation software
Build scalable systems
Build reliable systems
Solve complex architectural problems
Manage software engineers
Manage system engineers
Design products at scale
Validate products at scale
Understand current infrastructure
Improve tools for design
Improve processes for design
Improve tools for validation
Improve processes for validation
Improve tools for monitoring
Improve processes for monitoring
Oversee platform development efforts
Drive requirements for platform
Oversee system integration
Oversee development for tools
Oversee testing for tools
Define telemetry for platforms
Define alarming for platforms
Maintain vendor relationships
Resolve vendor issues
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Across multiple teams; Across organizations; Interacting with internal teams; Work with component partners; Work with job roles; Work with groups
Communication Scope
Communication skills
Process & Methodology
Planning
Full Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Senior Systems Development Engineer to lead the development of automation software for our mainstream compute and bare metal network infrastructure. You will work across multiple teams and organizations to build scalable, reliable systems that power our distributed storage platform. The AWS Hardware Engineering 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 millions of 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. The ideal candidate for this role will be an innovative self-starter. You are knowledgeable of the full technical stack - vertically from core platform compute and bare metal network server hardware up to the software in userland, and everything in the middle. You have tremendous interest in cloud scale and curious how systems and software decisions impact the user. You insist on highest-standards and are able to develop tactical solutions/tools to diagnose and fix issues. You are an excellent systems debugger - finding interaction issues between components on server systems. You are a leader with strong organizational, planning, and communication skills. You are a builder! Key job responsibilities You will be a technical leader solving complex architectural problems which may not defined before hand. You will manage a mix of software and system engineers that are pushing the technology envelope with novel inventions to design and validate products at scale. You will understand the current infrastructure and come up with plans to improve the tools and processes for designing, validating and monitoring fleet performance of the products. Interacting with internal interdisciplinary teams, you will oversee the platform development efforts
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