Kernel/Hypervisor Engineer, EC2 Accelerated Nitro

ENGINEERINGUK; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

An innovative organization is seeking a skilled Kernel/Hypervisor Engineer to join their dynamic team. You will play a crucial role in developing the EC2 Nitro Hypervisor and creating new EC2 instance families, enhancing performance for various workloads. This position offers the chance to work in a collaborative environment, tackling technical challenges and contributing to the technological roadmap. If you are passionate about virtualization and eager to make a significant impact, this role is perfect for you. Join a forward-thinking team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of cloud technology and delivering exceptional solutions to customers.

Qualifikationen

• 3+ years in professional software development with experience in C or Rust.
• Strong understanding of system design and operating systems internals.

Aufgaben

• Own the software development life cycle, from design to deployment.
• Drive operational excellence and improve hypervisor quality.

Kenntnisse

Software Development

System Design

C Programming

Rust Programming

Linux Command Line

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Software Development Life Cycle

Source Control Management

Jobbeschreibung

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Kernel/Hypervisor Engineer, EC2 Accelerated Nitro

Sector: Engineering
Role: Professional
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

DESCRIPTION
EC2 is looking for an experienced Kernel & Hypervisor Engineer for one of our virtualization organizations. As part of the team, you will be given the chance to have a significant impact on our systems, our business and most importantly our customers, working in a diverse work environment with a flexible schedule. You will be building the lowest layer of the Amazon Web Services software stack, engineering new EC2 instance families and developing the EC2 Nitro Hypervisor for AWS. You will have the opportunity to innovate, make new engineering proposals, and explore new areas.

EC2 Accelerated Nitro is an organization that powers the EC2 Nitro instance families, focusing on hypervisors, virtualization and accelerated computing. We build highly operable quiescent hypervisors that provide near bare metal performance to EC2 instances. We also integrate hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) into the EC2 instance families to support advanced workloads, such as machine learning, high performance computing, inference or graphics processing.

Key job responsibilities:

1. Take end to end ownership of the software development life cycle: You will build new solutions across the virtualization software stack; developing virtualization components and automating infrastructure flows. This includes design, testing and deployment.
2. Drive operational excellence, improving the quality of the hypervisor and our instance platforms.
3. Influence and contribute to the technological roadmap of your team.
4. Work with other EC2 teams like hardware, software and firmware groups across the globe, driving innovative solutions.

A day in the life
You will:

1. Work with your manager and other engineers in delivering to the roadmap.
2. Focus on high quality delivery and operational excellence.
3. Solve technical challenges impacting our customers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
2. Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
3. Experience programming with at least one software programming language
4. Experience of writing clean, optimized and scalable code using C or Rust.
5. 3+ years of experience using the typical Linux command line toolbox

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
2. Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
3. Experience working on the kernel or virtualization space.
4. Proficient in at least one CPU architecture such as x86 or ARM.
5. Understanding of operating systems internals.

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