Software Development Engineer, EC2 Nitro Cordite

AWS EC2 Nitro Local Storage is building the foundation of cloud local instance storage platforms at scale. We power customer workloads across industry from startups through the Fortune 500 enterprises.

We provide a virtualized hardware-accelerated instance storage solutions for EC2 instances. instance types. Our solutions are designed for workloads that require high, read and write access to very large data sets on local storage such as relational and NoSQL databases, analytics, search engines, and data warehousing.

We are looking for a passionate software engineer to develop and operate our EC2 local storage fleet. As part of this role you will be working across EC2 Teams building and operating storage and compute instances, develop tools and services to enhance our fleet observability and software quality, as well as automating any required remediation.

You will design and implement new services to scale our fleet and enable new instances. You will also work closely mentoring other engineers and influence product roadmaps for our customers.

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Key job responsibilities

Lead projects that require the work of multiple engineers.

Own team architecture, providing a system-wide view and design guidance. Become a key influencer in team strategy and goals.

Set a culture of robust and exemplary software development practices in terms of code organization, clarity, simplicity, error handling, and documentation.

Influence your team's long-term technical investments by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach.

Design and develop tools to scale on testing, fleet observability and diagnose issues.

Actively coach or mentor multiple other engineers.

What You'll Bring to the Role

Strong analytical, design and problem solving skills

Excellent leadership skills and the ability to hit the ground running

Experience with System integration, storage, filesystems, virtualization technologies and on-demand computing

Effective communication and inter-personal skills

Experience with device drivers, firmware management and understanding of IO technologies like NVMe are a big plus

Deep understanding of software development practices and experience with all phases of development.

A day in the life

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.

About the team

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

• 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 7+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
30+ days ago