Senior Cloud Hardware Developer Engineer - Rack Integration, Network Product Development
About the job
- A bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Physics, or Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
- At least 5 years of experience in optical communication systems, rack-level integration, data center hardware validation, or networking hardware development.
- At least 3 years of experience with optical transceivers, active electrical cables, digital-to-analog cables, related IEEE standards, test automation frameworks, and hardware validation and characterization scripts.
- At least 3 years of experience working with manufacturing partners on rack-level or system-level manufacturing processes, test development, and qualifications.
- Professional development experience with Python for test automation and scripting.
- Experience owning the end-to-end product lifecycle from concept through production and operations.
- Own the full product lifecycle for rack interconnect systems, including defining requirements, designing solutions, validating performance, selecting manufacturing approaches, and driving production quality from concept through deprecation.
- Lead rack integration test strategy and execution covering optical interconnects, active electrical cables, fiber testing, and loopback testing across rack configurations; create test plans to validate designs and address system integration challenges.
- Develop and maintain Python-based test automation frameworks for rack-level validation, characterization, and regression testing, and improve processes to reduce failure rates and lifecycle degradation.
- Manage strategic partnerships with manufacturing partners, define and implement engineering standards and quality frameworks, serve as the technical authority and escalation lead, improve manufacturing yield, and resolve complex technical challenges.
- Own operational production performance of rack interconnect systems and continuously improve failure rates, availability, and uptime.
- Create mechanisms to reduce repeat issues and optimize best practices across rack integration processes and methodologies.
- Understand AWS network and internal customer requirements for interconnect solutions; devise hardware solutions and develop software tools with partner teams to maintain network availability.
- Design and implement processes and mechanisms that deliver organizational business impact and improve operational excellence.
- Bridge design, construction, and operations, ensuring physical networking components meet performance, reliability, and scalability standards.
- Demonstrated mastery of system architecture and understanding of electrical, optical, mechanical, manufacturing, validation, and reliability hardware disciplines.
- Experience managing strategic partnerships with manufacturing partners and defining engineering standards and quality frameworks adopted across partner organizations.
- Expertise in rack interconnect test methodologies, including loopback testing, fiber characterization, and active electrical cable validation at system and rack level.
- Experience with design and manufacturing of pluggable optics, active electrical cables, and digital-to-analog cables (SFP, SFP+, QSFP, QSFP-DD, and OSFP) at the rack integration level.
- Track record of leading cross-functional teams and driving complex technical decisions that impact product quality and time-to-market.
About the company
Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington
Founded
1994
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- AI drives growth: AWS's AI and custom-chip sales each more than doubled, passing $25 billion a year by June 2026.
- Stock grants gained value: shares hit a record in August 2026, making Amazon the fifth company to reach $3 trillion.
- Ads are a third engine beside stores and AWS: they grew 26% to $19.8 billion in the June 2026 quarter.
What critics are saying
- AWS's lead is shrinking: in the June 2026 quarter, Google Cloud grew 82% and Microsoft's Azure 43%, versus AWS's 37%.
- Job security has slipped: Amazon cut 30,000 corporate jobs in October 2025 and January 2026 to reduce management layers.
- Expect five office days a week: Amazon ended its three-day hybrid policy for corporate staff in January 2025.
What makes Amazon unique
- Most of Amazon's profit comes from cloud: AWS made 21% of sales but 60% of operating profit in mid-2026.
- Amazon is America's biggest parcel carrier by volume: it handled 6.9 billion packages in 2025, more than the Postal Service.
- Writing matters more than slides: Amazon meetings open with silent reading of a six-page memo instead of PowerPoint.
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