Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Technology

Kernel/OSEngineer,EC2NitroInstanceLifecycleManagement

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

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.

The Brief

“Kernel/OS Engineer, EC2 Nitro Instance Lifecycle Management at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.. Skills: Kernel/OS Engineering, EC2 Nitro, Instance Lifecycle Management. Design software. Develop software”

What You'll Achieve.

Ensure customers launch instances; Protect resources from threats; Create efficient services; Create scalable services; Create secure services

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshooting operational issues; Debug complex issues

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years software development experience, 2+ years system design experience, 1+ years embedded software experience, 1+ years Object Oriented Design, Bachelor's degree or equivalent, Experience programming C++, Experience programming Java, Experience programming Perl, Experience programming C#, Experience programming C

Nice to Have

3+ years full SDLC experience, Bachelor's degree in computer science

What You'll Do.

Drive system architecture

Spearhead best practices

Coach junior engineers

Develop embedded services

Enhance embedded services

Optimize critical paths

Improve security mechanisms

Coordinate with partner teams

Validate solutions meet standards

Manage instance creation

Manage instance execution

Manage instance termination

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with EC2 teams; Collaborate with teammates; Coordinate with partner teams

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

EC2 Nitro drives the planet’s largest, fastest growing and most feature-rich compute cloud. Nitro is AWS’ 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 - the Graviton processor family - while raising the industry bar for security and performance across our product line. We integrate hardware, firmware, application software and services to deliver new virtualized and bare-metal compute platforms for companies from startups through the Fortune 500. Join Nitro Instance Lifecycle (NIL) team within EC2 where you will develop critical services powering cloud infrastructure. As a skilled engineer with expertise in C, you'll work on software that provide essential services to customer instances and EC2 dataplane applications. This role offers unique opportunities to design and build high-performance, reliable services that operate at massive scale to ensure customers are able to launch instances successfully while simultaneously protecting droplet resources from potential security threats. This position requires an engineer who thrives in an embedded systems environment and can deliver robust solutions for the infrastructure that underpins AWS services. You'll help shape the future of cloud computing by creating efficient, scalable, and secure services that operate close to the hardware. Your contributions will directly impact customer experience and the performance of one of the world's largest cloud platforms. Key job responsibilities - You will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying large-scale software running across AWS data centers. - You will collaborate closely with EC2 teams to help curate the team’s roadmap. You will also drive the system architecture, spearhead best practices that enable a quality product, and help coach and develop junior engineers. - A successful candidate will have an esta

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