Sr Software Development Engineer, OEM Solid State Drives Team
Amazon · Denver, CO
$168,100–$261,500from the description
Jul 27, 2026
Denver, CO
Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior Software Development Engineer role on AWS's OEM SSD team, responsible for designing and shipping production services that automate the full lifecycle of SSD drives — from qualification and firmware management to fleet-wide health monitoring — at a scale of millions of drives across EC2, EBS, and S3 platforms. The work involves building scalable backend services, analyzing telemetry data, and leveraging agentic AI tools to accelerate delivery. Suited to experienced engineers comfortable with end-to-end service ownership in a small, high-impact team.
Senior level · 5+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting lists three work locations with different salary bands: Cupertino, CA ($193,300–$261,500), Denver, CO ($168,100–$227,400), and Seattle, WA ($168,100–$227,400). The compensation range reported here spans the full spread across all three locations.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent' — because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted, this is treated as no hard degree gate.
The JD names no specific programming language; the 5+ year language requirement is a general gate with no named technology to capture as a skill.
SSD/HDD domain knowledge appears only under Preferred Qualifications and is listed as 'strong understanding or motivation to learn' — treated as preferred.
Agentic AI tools are mentioned prominently in the day-to-day description and responsibilities but are not listed as a hard gate in the Basic Qualifications section — treated as preferred.
AWS (the cloud platform) is the team's operating environment but is not explicitly listed as a required skill in the qualifications sections.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): software development, system design.
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