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Software Development Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA

DESCRIPTION

Are you a passionate software engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, challenging environment? If being an integral member of a team and contributing to cutting-edge technology is your thing, the Cordite team, part of Amazon Web Services EC2 is looking for engineers to help us define and build the future of cloud storage. We are working on an exciting EC2 solution in the storage and backup domain. The team is part of EC2 Nitro, provides a virtualized hardware-accelerated instance storage solution and owns the EC2 storage optimized instances. Our solution is used as the direct instance storage for I3, I3EN, M5D, R5D, M5AD, D3, C5D, G4D, P3D instance types offered by EC2.

What is Instance Storage?
The links below provide some information on Instance Storage. However, we'd love to tell you more about it !!

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https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/InstanceStorage.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUY-00yFlE4 around 12:12 into the video

What You'll Be Doing?
As a member of this team, you will work alongside genuinely curious and extremely bright engineers, product managers and leaders who obsess about performance, availability, scalability and durability of customer data. You will be building features in the Instance Storage data plane that solve customers' real world problems. Opportunities to solve technical problems at a large scale, using SOA, distributed systems, and storage technologies will be all around you. As a member of this team, you will have strong ownership over the design, implementation and operation of a massive scale distributed storage system. The unique accountability of owning EC2 storage optimized instances will provide the opportunity to work with and learn about the large EC2 eco-system. You will have the opportunity to work closely with an agile team that ships often, and see the impact your code has on a wide range of customers from startups to enterprise companies.

What You'll Bring to the Role
  • Strong analytical, design and problem solving skills
  • Excellent leadership skills with the ability to hit the ground running
  • Excellent time management and follow-through ability while managing multiple priorities
  • Effective communication and inter-personal skills
  • Deep understanding of software development practices and experience with all phases of development
  • Thrive in a fast paced environment that encourages and rewards creative design and intelligent risk taking
  • Experience programming in C, C++, Python on high performance systems
  • Experience developing software in Linux environments
  • Experience with device drivers, firmware management and understanding of IO technologies like NVMe are a big plus
  • Experience with storage, filesystems, virtualization technologies and on-demand computing
  • Exposure to software development techniques with large distributed systems involving petabytes of data
  • Exposure to managing virtualized large scale systems
Inclusive Team Culture
Our team is diverse! We drive towards an inclusive culture and work environment. We are intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Team members are active in Amazon's 10+ affinity groups, sometimes known as employee resource groups, which bring employees together across businesses and locations around the world. These range from groups such as the Black Employee Network, Latinos at Amazon, Indigenous at Amazon, Families at Amazon, Amazon Women and Engineering, LGBTQ+, Warriors at Amazon (Military), Amazon People With Disabilities, and more.
Work/Life Harmony
We put a high value on work-life balance. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship and Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • 5+ years of software industry experience.
  • Programming in C/C++/Python with focus on Distributed Systems


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience building scalable infrastructure software for commercial online services.
  • Experience with storage, filesystems, virtualization technologies and on-demand computing.
  • Exposure to software development techniques especially with large distributed systems involving petabytes of data is a high plus.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/internal/disability/us

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records

Client-provided location(s): Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Job ID: Amazon-1446602
Employment Type: Other

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