Software Development Engineer, System SW group

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, System SW group in Haifa, Israel. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this software engineer role: aI is not part of the work.
Tools and skills the posting cites include Python, C and Lua.
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Design and develop software tools and infrastructure for custom cloud platforms and hardware platforms at AWS Annapurna Labs.

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Annapurna Labs is the team behind the custom silicon and systems at the heart of AWS (Amazon Web Services) infrastructure — we operate like a start-up with the scale of the world's largest cloud provider.

We're looking for Software Engineer to join the System Group in defining, shaping, and integrating advanced solutions for the next generation of our cloud platforms.

Join our dynamic System Software team in creating innovative software solutions that power our product development lifecycle from conception to deployment. You'll develop critical tools that ensure product excellence across design, validation, manufacturing, and production environments

Key job responsibilities
• Design and develop software tools for all product development stages (card level, rack level).
• Collaborate with hardware engineers, firmware developers, and system architects.
• Create and maintain debugging tools and utilities
• Develop comprehensive documentation and provide training for tools.
• Optimize testing and validation processes for coverage, speed, efficiency, and resource utilization.
• Research and implement new technologies to enhance the testing ecosystem.
• Support critical system troubleshooting and issue resolution.
• Participate in design reviews and provide technical guidance on testability.

About the team
Our System SW team at Annapurna Labs brings Amazon's custom EC2 servers from first engineering units to full-rate production across our various sites. We work close to the metal industry, bringing up new chip and card platforms, standing up the manufacturing process and driving each one to launch faster, healthier, and more reliably. Partnering with design teams, manufacturing partners, and data center operations, we turn brand-new hardware into a healthy, high-volume fleet that directly impacts millions of customers around the world.

If you're a systems or software engineer who loves hard problems where hardware, manufacturing, and software meet — we'd love to talk.

Basic qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience in a multidisciplinary company.
- Experience in programming, with at least one software programming language (C, Python, Lua).
- Experience in Software-Hardware systems.

Preferred qualifications

- Understanding of Linux internals.
- Experience in computer architecture.
- Experience in scripting language.

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How we rate this

Software Development Engineer, System SW group at Amazon rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

Software Development Engineer, System SW group is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in IL, Haifa.
The job was posted on October 28, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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