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Senior Systems Engineer, Amazon Special Projects

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Base Salary

$151k - $205k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement a Linux agent daemon with GPU discovery, availability detection, and sandboxed container execution for ML inference workloads.
  • Architect local caching with eviction policies, versioned manifests, disk-budget management, and efficient updates for large model files.
  • Build VRAM management and graceful workload migration logic.
  • Integrate hardware attestation and support heterogeneous hardware configurations and fleet onboarding automation.
  • Develop reliable, scalable, performant software and infrastructure that operates unattended on compute nodes.

Requirements

  • At least six years of programming experience with a modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, or Ruby.
  • At least six years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • At least six years of experience designing or architecting reliable and scalable systems.
  • At least six years of experience in systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement.
  • At least seven years of systems programming experience with Rust, Go, or C++.
  • Deep knowledge of Linux internals, including process scheduling, memory management, and storage subsystems.
  • Hands-on experience with container runtimes such as Docker or custom sandboxes.
  • Experience with GPU tooling and management, including nvidia-smi, NVML, and the CUDA runtime.
  • Demonstrated ability to build software that runs reliably on heterogeneous hardware.
  • Preferred experience with full software, hardware, and network development lifecycles, complex infrastructure delivery, constrained-storage caching systems, edge computing, fleet management, embedded systems, hardware attestation, storage performance optimization, or unattended daemon and agent software.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, and supplemental life plan options.
  • Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the compensation package.
  • Position is based in Seattle, Washington.

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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.

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