Application Deadline: Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we're looking for talented people who want to help.
You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations 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. And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
AWS Hardware Engineering Team
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 the more than one million 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.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate for this role will have a proven track record of rapidly coming up to speed on new engineering disciplines, making impactful decisions within that space, and have experience gluing together components written by more specialized engineers to create a cohesive, well-running engineering product. AWS Engineers are shaping the way people use computers and designing the future of cloud computing technology - come help us make history!
Job Responsibilities
You will be a member of the HWEng Storage Systems team and will interact with engineers across the company to lead the development of AWS storage servers and devices. Key Responsibilities for this position include:
• Building and maintaining software services for data pipeline analytics, health dispositions and remediations, qualification, validation and testings.
Why it Matters
Public cloud IT services represent the majority of growth in the overall IT services market and will continue to do so for several years to come. The scale of AWS, combined with an understanding of how our hardware is used, creates a unique opportunity for component customization that will directly benefit customers.
Why You Will Love It
You will work with engineers across the company to build next-generation storage servers. You will have a direct impact on our bottom line and the ability to deliver improvements for our developers. You will be part of a growing, fast-paced, and fun team. You will have ownership for the implementation of your work. You will see direct product improvements based on the results of your work.
Key Job Responsibilities
You will manage and own HDD systems in Amazon. You will create and utilize data analytics to monitor the health of hard drives and then deploy software solutions to improve. This includes:
• OS level changes • Automated testing • Data analysis • Operational dashboard generation • New NPIs
Problem solving is critical to this role. Given the size of the fleet a 1% occurrence happens millions of times. Can you figure out what happened and how to prevent it?
About the Team
The team owns all of the HDD hard drives and associated servers in AWS. We constantly introduce new technology, software, and analytics to scale the fleet. Given the size of the fleet nothing can be done one off, and thus we focus on algorithmic solutions to each issue. The vast majority of the team is on site in downtown Denver, however we also have people in Cupertino Ca and Seattle Washington.