If building secure, autonomous systems that safely deploy server software to one of the world"s largest storage services excites you, the EBS Server Agility team is the place to do it. Our team builds and operates the deployment and patching infrastructure that keeps EBS server software current and secure across 400,000 bare-metal servers - infrastructure that serves millions of AWS customers and exabytes of data every day.
We"re looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to drive the technical direction of our deployment and patching systems - from automated security patching that reaches every server every 15 days to train deployment pipelines that safely roll out new server software across dozens of AWS regions with zero customer impact. You"ll lead the design of solutions to complex problems involving safe deployment to stateful storage systems, automated rollback and canary analysis, manifest consistency, and the transition from operator-in-the-loop to secure, autonomous server deployments.
Server deployment at EBS sits in the critical path for security compliance and feature velocity. We shape how EBS server software evolves to support new hardware platforms, new partitions (including edge and outpost), and new operational models. We regularly partner with principal engineers and teams across EC2 and EBS to deliver integrations that make server deployments safer and more efficient. If you want your technical leadership to have real impact at AWS scale, and you"re excited by building secure systems that deploy themselves, we"d love to talk to you.
Key job responsibilities
A day in the life
Your work spans the full range of deployment engineering - from working through new payload requests and figuring out how to safely integrate new server components into the deployment train, to analyzing deployment data to identify inefficiencies and designing automated anomaly detection for the deployment services. You"ll brainstorm rollout strategies for hotfixes that can"t wait for the regular cadence, drive automation that eliminates manual operator steps, and partner with principal engineers and teams across EBS and EC2 on cross-service deployment integrations.
This is a high-visibility role. Server deployment decisions affect every EBS customer, and your work is regularly reviewed by senior leadership. You"ll collaborate across organizational boundaries, influence technical direction beyond your immediate team, and represent deployment safety in discussions that shape how EBS evolves.
We value senior engineers who lead through ambiguity, reduce toil through smart automation, make principled tradeoffs between speed and safety, and elevate those around them.
About the team
You"ll join a group of strong engineers who own the server deployment and patching infrastructure for EBS. We design and operate deployment pipelines that safely deliver validated server software to 400,000 bare-metal servers, automated patching systems that keep server software secure on a biweekly cadence, metrics collection infrastructure for deployment observability, and secure operational tooling for autonomous server operations. We move fast to deliver for customers while maintaining operational excellence across these mission-critical services.
We"re a 10-person team in Boston building toward a future where server software patches and deploys itself - safely, securely, on schedule, with full visibility. There"s significant greenfield opportunity: safe deployment to stateful bare-metal systems at global scale has almost no off-the-shelf solutions, so you"ll be designing from first principles.