Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer

About the position

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you’ll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond. Together, we advance your career. AMD is looking for a specialized senior software engineer who is passionate about improving developer experience and releasing quality builds. Our software is open-source fist and customers consume our sfotware stack alongside with a host of open source frameworks that are leveraged to deliver inference and training workloads at scale. Currently, there's a tremendous amount of work to shift AMD to a true open-source, shift-left, development culture. You will be a member of a core team of incredibly talented industry specialists and will work with the very latest hardware and software technology. You will also be involved in SRE acitivities and lead a small team of engineers in this area.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with tools like GitHub Actions and Jenkins to ensure smooth and reliable software delivery
  • Contribute to major components of our CI platforms while leading independent projects within CI
  • Involve in design and reviews for build architectures, shift-left activities and improving developer feedback loops
  • Lead SRE activities with a group of individuals.
  • Work with stake holders across many component teams to help modernize their developer workflows
  • Contribute to streamlining release packaging activities
  • Debugging/fix existing issues and research alternative, more efficient ways to accomplish the same work
  • Develop technical relationships with peers and partners
  • Develop code in IaC, python and bash for automation

Requirements

  • 9+ years of experience
  • Ability to write high quality code with a keen attention to detail
  • Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipeline design, version control best practices, and build systems
  • Experience with modern concurrent programming and threading APIs
  • Experience with Windows and Linux operating system development
  • Effective communication and problem-solving skills
  • Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with software development processes and tools such as debuggers, source code control systems (GitHub) and profilers is a plus

Benefits

  • AMD benefits at a glance.
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