Senior Kernel/Hypervisor Engineer, EC2 Core Compute

Amazon; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Amazon is seeking a Senior Kernel/Hypervisor Engineer for its EC2 Core Compute team in Berlin. This role involves ownership of the software development life cycle, improving the quality of virtualization technology, and mentoring other engineers. Candidates should have extensive experience in kernel or virtualization environments and proficiency in programming with C or Rust.

The position offers a diverse work environment, and the opportunity to work on cutting-edge solutions while maintaining operational excellence. Join Amazon to make a significant impact on cloud technology!

Qualifikationen

• Experience designing or architecting systems with reliability and scaling.
• Several years working in the kernel or virtualization space.
• Understanding of operating systems internals.

Aufgaben

• Take end-to-end ownership of software development life cycle.
• Drive operational excellence and improve hypervisor quality.
• Influence and mentor other engineers.

Kenntnisse

C or Rust programming

Kernel design and architecture

Experience with virtualization

Linux command line proficiency

Collaborative teamwork

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Jobbeschreibung

Senior Kernel/Hypervisor Engineer, EC2 Core Compute

Job ID: 10459773 | Amazon Web Services Development Center Germany GmbH

EC2 Core Compute is looking for an experienced Senior 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, developing the EC2 Nitro Hypervisor for AWS, operating the hardware and off-host software components and engineering new EC2 Nitro instance families. You will have the opportunity to innovate, make new engineering proposals, and explore new areas. For more information please feel free to visit https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/.

Utility Computing (UC)

AWS 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.

Key job responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of the software development life cycle: build new solutions across the virtualization software stack, develop virtualization components and automate infrastructure flows; this includes design, testing and deployment.
• Drive operational excellence, improving the quality of the hypervisor and our instance platforms.
• Drive, influence and contribute to the technological roadmap of your team.
• Influence and mentor other engineers on the team.
• Work with other EC2 teams like hardware, software and firmware groups across the globe, driving innovative solutions.
• Be open to leveraging AI tools and technologies to enhance productivity and technical problem-solving.

A day in the life

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

About the team

• Leave no customer workload on-premises by engineering new EC2 instance families with the latest generation of CPUs.
• Build the most secure, performant and feature-rich virtualization technology in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience writing clean, optimized and scalable code using C or Rust.
• Several years of experience working in the kernel or virtualization space, and using the typical Linux command line toolbox.
• Understanding of operating systems internals.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Proficient in at least one CPU architecture such as x86 or ARM.

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