Manager, Software Development, AWS ECNitro Operating System

AWS EC2 Nitro powers the world’s largest, fastest-growing, and most feature-rich compute cloud. Built from the ground up for virtualization at global scale, Nitro is a fully custom stack of hardware, firmware, and software that enables EC2 to support Intel, AMD, and AWS's own Graviton processors - while setting industry benchmarks for security and performance. With our , we break apart traditional hypervisor functions like CPU virtualization, storage, and networking, and offload them to dedicated hardware and software.

This enables us to deliver practically all of the resources of a server to customer instances, innovate faster, increase security, deliver new instance types, and reduce customer cost.

The Nitro Linux team owns the secure, embedded Linux environment at the heart of this system. We build and maintain the operating system that integrates with the Nitro control plane and powers live updates, metrics collection, core dump handling, and system health monitoring across AWS's global infrastructure. Linux, ash, C, lua, Rust - join us for embedded software systems at cloud scale!

Key job responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers on Linux kernel development for EC2 Nitro platforms
• Drive technical strategy and roadmap for kernel development initiatives
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, software, and program teams to define requirements and priorities
• Identify and remove blockers to enable team productivity and technical excellence
• Support team members in debugging complex, system-level issues and knowledge sharing
• Represent the team in cross-functional planning and stakeholder communications

• 3 years of engineering team management experience
• 7 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 8 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
• Experience troubleshooting problems and offering solutions to streamline complex challenges, or experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis

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

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These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness…