Sr System Development Engineer, PCIe, SI, Performance, AWS Hardware Components
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Strong offering due to the focus on advanced hardware and system development, enhancing AWS's capabilities.
- Essential role in AWS hardware component development
- Opportunity to drive innovation in high-performance systems
- Potential for considerable professional growth
- Requires thorough technical expertise
Pros
- Significant role in developing server performance technologies
- Opportunity to work on high-impact projects within AWS
- Involvement in the forefront of cloud service performance
Cons
- Highly focused technical position with rigorous expectations
- Intensive work environment potentially leading to stress
- Requires a strong background in performance and interconnect design
Who it's for
Senior / Lead • Onsite with flexibility for occasional remote work
Good fit
- Senior performance engineers
- Experts in complex systems design
- Collaborators focused on cloud service advancements
Not recommended for
- Inexperienced candidates without relevant engineering skills
- Individuals looking for roles with little technical demand
- Those preferring non-collaborative work environments
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Description
AWS EC2 owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS server instances. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS compute, storage, accelerator servers and 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 hardware engineers, software engineers, system engineers, technical program 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.
Key job responsibilities
AWS hardware Engineering is looking for a customer-obsessed, team-driven technology leader to take our engineering of server hardware and software to the next level. As a cloud server performance engineer, you’ll work on Amazon’s hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that meet or exceed the high performance bar, with focus on high speed interconnects, including PCIe. You will interact with internal and external interdisciplinary teams of engineers to design, develop, validate, launch, monitor and troubleshoot high throughput interfaces at scale. You will be on the team that is responsible for PCIe topology for the EC2 servers, including retimer and switch firmware and telemetry. This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position. At AWS we are changing the industry and want individuals who are ready for a challenge to reach beyond what is possible today.
About the team
"*Why AWS*
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
*Diverse Experiences*
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
*Work/Life Balance*
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
*Inclusive Team Culture*
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
*Mentorship and Career Growth*
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.“
