Do you want to build the backbone of AWS? Do want to build the future of the cloud? You are intrigued by the continuous release of newer AWS services and instance types that solve newer, bigger and more interesting business problems every day? Does that make you wish your talents were applied to those at cloud scale? If yes, then come join us - we are looking for builders like you.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 millions of 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.The ideal candidate for this role will be an innovative self-starter. You are knowledgeable of the full technical stack - vertically from baremetal server hardware up to the software in userland, and everything in the middle. You have tremendous interest in cloud scale and curious how systems and software decisions impact the user. You insist on the highest-standards and are able to develop tactical solutions/tools to diagnose and fix issues. You are an excellent systems debugger - finding interaction issues between components on server systems. You are a leader with strong organizational, planning, and communication skills. You are a builder!When you become part of this team, you will provide technical leadership to, and work with engineers across the company for delivering the next-generation AWS platforms. You will have a direct impact on our bottom line and the ability to deliver improvements for AWS. 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.AWS Engineers are shaping the way people use computers and designing the future of cloud computing technology - come help us make history!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 software and hardware is used, creates a unique opportunity for component customizations that will directly benefit our customers.Key job responsibilitiesYou will be a technical leader solving complex architectural problems which may not defined before hand. You will own the team's systems and work proactively in identifying deficiencies, writing tactical code to solve issues before they impact customers. You will work with your team to scale the solution. You will decompose big difficult server system testability, reliability and diagnosis problems into straightforward tasks, components or features that you will lead to deliver yourself and through others in parallel. You will use a combination of hardware, software, system designs, x86 architecture, processes, diagnosis and operations knowledge to deliver your results.About the teamWe are the builders of AWS backbone (server) infrastructure. The team gets involved in early NPI phase for Accelerators, Enterprise and Trusted/Secure AWS cloud servers, and continues through launch and thereafter. Our software, services and automation are critical in design, EC2 instance build yields, launch go/no-go decisions, and fleet health thereafter. We build process automation systems to improve efficiency across the board.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Seattle, WA, USA- 4+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience- 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experi