24 hours ago
Base Salary
$174k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Administer and automate AWS-based HPC environments, including clusters, operating systems, software stacks, containers, user provisioning, and system security.
- Support computer-aided engineering and computational science workflows by improving HPC robustness, performance, and availability across instance types and regions.
- Scale computational capacity on AWS to accelerate quantum hardware design and simulation.
- Design reproducible development environments and manage dependencies, builds, releases, and artifacts across research software projects.
- Develop CI/CD pipelines and automate provisioning with infrastructure-as-code.
- Implement observability and monitoring to support debugging, reliability, and high uptime.
- Translate scientific and software requirements into design proposals, drive implementation, and coordinate platform rollouts with internal stakeholders.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement.
- Programming experience in at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, or Rust.
- Experience with Linux/Unix.
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline build processes.
- Preferred experience with distributed systems at scale and network fundamentals including DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, switching, and HTTP.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes, Docker or the containers ecosystem, or Ubuntu/Solaris.
- Preferred experience with AWS services including VPC, EC2, EBS, S3, SQS, CloudFormation, and Lambda.
- Preferred experience working with scientists in a research environment and with HPC infrastructure.
- Strong engineering judgment, problem-solving, communication, ownership, and teamwork skills.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, and AD&D coverage, plus employee assistance and mental health support.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the Amazon package.
- Amazon provides mentorship, knowledge-sharing, learning experiences, and career-development resources.
About Amazon
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.