Firecracker Kernel/Hypervisor Engineer - Open Source Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited in Dublin seeks engineers to build and maintain Firecracker, a purpose-built virtualization technology for secure, multi-tenant serverless platforms. You will understand customer needs, design features, and contribute to open source efforts across AWS Lambda and related services.

The role emphasizes ownership, automation, and a path to long-term customer value, with occasional on-call duties and a collaborative, startup-like team culture.

Qualifications

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development.
• Interest, knowledge, and experience in the areas of low-level software engineering and/or systems programming.
• Passionate about working in the open source community.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer needs and engineer new features to meet them.
• Own and automate operations; maintain Firecracker open source project.
• Contribute ideas to improve quality and development efficiency; innovate in ephemer compute platforms.
• On-call responsibilities approximately every 8 weeks, with focus on fault tolerance.

Skills

Professional software development

Open source enthusiast

Systems programming interest

Linux/C/C++/Rust

Job description

Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited in Dublin seeks engineers to build and maintain Firecracker, a purpose-built virtualization technology for secure, multi-tenant serverless platforms. You will understand customer needs, design features, and contribute to open source efforts across AWS Lambda and related services.

The role emphasizes ownership, automation, and a path to long-term customer value, with occasional on-call duties and a collaborative, startup-like team culture.