Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Technology

Kernel/OSEngineer,AWSEC2NitroOperatingSystem

$144–194k Seattle, Washington, United States FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Kernel/OS Engineer, AWS EC2 Nitro Operating System at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.. Skills: Kernel Development, Operating Systems, C++, AWS EC2. Develop and maintain the EC2 Nitro operating system. Design and implement new kernel features”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Debugging; Troubleshooting

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years of experience, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Experience with C, C++, or Rust, Experience with operating system internals, Experience with kernel development

Nice to Have

Master's degree or PhD, Experience with virtualization technologies, Experience with distributed systems, Experience with performance analysis, Experience with kernel debugging

What You'll Do.

Develop and maintain the EC2 Nitro operating system

Design and implement new kernel features

Optimize system performance

Debug and resolve complex kernel issues

Collaborate with hardware and software teams

Contribute to system architecture decisions

Write technical documentation

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Hardware teams; Software teams

Communication Scope

Technical documentation

Full Job Description

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 Nitro System, 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 - Research, design, and implement Linux kernel changes to meet business requirements - Drive kernel development for next-generation EC2 compute platforms - Bring up Linux on new hardware platforms and custom silicon - Debug complex, system-level, multi-component issues across layers from kernel to application - Profile system performance and drive optimizations across the software stack - Develop tooling for performance characterization, qualification, and deployment - Deliver production-quality code and support its operation in production environments - Collaborate across hardware, firmware, systems, and application software teams - Openness to leveraging AI tools and technologies to enhance productivity and technical problem-solving. Basic Qualifications: - 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience - 2+ years of non-

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