Amazon Software Development Engineer Nitro 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

823180667

The ideal candidate for this role will be an innovative self-starter. You will be an SSD firmware expert with experience in making architectural tradeoffs to optimize SSD performance for a variety of use cases. You will work with engineers across the company as well as external companies and lead firmware development efforts on custom solid-state devices. You will collaborate with internal and external development engineers (architecture, hardware, validation, 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 designing AWS-specific hardware, firmware and software for non-volatile memory devices, including NAND-based SSDs. You will be a part of the firmware effort from conception, through validation and into production. You will contribute to FW development and support device characterization and benchmarking efforts. You will work closely with AWS software and hardware engineers to tailor devices for the AWS environment.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 customizations that will directly benefit our customers.Why you will love it: You will work with engineers across the company to build next-generation devices. 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 be developing firmware for Nitro SSD. You will work with NAND vendor and SSD controller vendor on SSD back end firmware to integrate new NAND on different Nitro SSD platforms. You will participate in the end to end product development cycle including design, implementation, validation and post launch customer support. You will constantly seek for opportunities to improve Nitro SSD firmware's maintainability, scalability, efficiency and testability. You will drive improvement on firmware and hardware integration validation methodology and specification. You will design and implement firmware features to improve Nitro SSD's fleet observability. Working with both internal and external teammates, you will help Nitro SSD to deliver new products that's reliable, high performance and cost effective to customers all over the world through AWS data centers.

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 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
- Good understanding of SSD hardware architecture and NAND concepts such as MLC vs TLC, read retry, suspend, RAID.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience developing firmware for SSD and other related storage devices.
- High-level understanding of storage technologies and associated block interface protocols.
- Excellent written communication and verbal skills.
- An understanding of AWS technologies (aws.amazon.com).
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.