Sr. Software Development Engineer, ECNitro Specialized Instance team

Description

Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations— from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Our software developers build the next generation technologies that change how millions of AWS customers connect, and interact with the AWS services ecosystem. We use ideas from every facet of computer science including distributed computing, large-scale design, service-oriented architecture & networking. We are looking for highly-motivated and passionate engineers to build the next generation of network management for one of the largest networks in the world.

EC2 Nitro drives the planet’s largest, fastest growing and most feature-rich compute cloud. Nitro is AWS’s ground-up design for virtualization at global scale built on a fully custom stack of hardware, firmware and applications. Nitro has enabled EC2 to support Intel, AMD and Amazon’s custom silicon – Graviton3 – while raising the industry bar for security and performance across our product line.

The Nitro Team is looking for engineers with systems knowledge and experience in areas such as Linux OS boot sequencing, kernel, hypervisor (Xen or KVM), peripheral device development (PCIe or NVMe) and building compute infrastructure to support high memory and high performance computing workloads.

The Nitro High Memory and HPC team owns the purpose-built platform development for the high performance computing workloads and database workloads like SAP, Oracle and SQL with tens of terabytes of memory. The team interfaces directly with system BIOS for bare-metal instances and drives critical system interactions within the Nitro Hypervisor and across EC2 control-plane services. We need engineers with the dive-deep and ownership to work across domains (such as PC peripheral firmware or Linux Kernel internals) to deliver features and new instance types for our customers.

Work is typically done in C/C++ or Rust with supporting scripts and tests in Python and Lua. Senior Software Development Engineers work closely with EC2 Principal Engineers and other technical leaders to define technical direction, and then follow through with detailed analysis, designs, and high quality code.

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and Amaze Con (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team values work‑life balance. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to lifelong happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between work and personal lives.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members provide one‑on‑one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help each team member develop into a better‑rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software…