The AWS Hardware Engineering team is driving rapid innovation in the server and storage infrastructure used by Amazon 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 Firmware 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 will be an SSD test validation expert with experience in validating SSD operation and performance for a variety of use cases. You will be a member of the HWEng Storage team and will interact with engineers across the team and company to lead and develop automation and infrastructure capabilities to improve SSD drive operational health, qualification and integration across all of supported AWS storage server platforms. You will work with engineers within the team and across the company to lead firmware test development efforts on custom solid-state devices. You will collaborate with internal and external development engineers (architecture, hardware, product, software services). AWS Engineers are shaping the way people use computers and designing the future of cloud computing technology – come help us make history!


What you will do: You will be a member of a team that will be validating AWS-specific firmware and software for non-volatile memory devices, including NAND-based SSDs. You will be a part of the validation effort from conception, through validation and into production. You will contribute to test development and support infrastructure maintenance and enhancement efforts. Key Responsibilities for this position include authoring requirements specifications for new feature and infrastructure ideas, system design, and development, all while testing at each phase.


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
- Must have leadership experience developing automation software, spanning across multiple teams and multiple organizations.
- Must have experience designing and building system-level software at scale, with an emphasis on durability, availability, security, and diagnostics.
- Must have a strong understanding of SSDS and validation experience.
- Must have demonstrated experience debugging Linux boot and runtime problems on ARM and x86.
- Must have demonstrated experience developing tools to perform testing running on Linux-based systems
- Must have experience hands on development of automation software in at least one modern language, such as Python, Ruby, Java, or others.
- Desirable to have an understanding of AWS services, specifically, S3, Lambda
- Desirable to have an understanding of drive (SSD) technology
- Desirable to have an understanding of Jenkins, pipelines