Sr. Software Development Engineer, ECNitro Specialized Instance team; AWS

Sr. Software Development Engineer, EC2 Nitro Specialized Instance Team

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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 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 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 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 terra‑byte of memories. 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 a deep knowledge of 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.

We work primarily 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.

Design and implement high-performance virtualized infrastructure components for EC2 environments.

Develop and maintain kernel, hypervisor, and peripheral firmware components.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver new instance types, features, and international support.

Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and performance optimization activities.

• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one major software programming language
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems (design patterns, reliability and scaling)
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.

Our team embraces diversity, offers flexible working hours, and provides opportunities for mentorship and career growth. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave, among other benefits.

Annual salary range: USD  – .

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.