Software Development Engineer, Nitro High Memory and HPC team

Overview

Software Development Engineer, Nitro High Memory and HPC team

Job ID: 2816411 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

About the team

EC2 Nitro drives the planet’s largest, fastest growing and most feature-rich compute cloud. Nitro is AWS’s 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 - Graviton3 - while raising the industry bar for security and performance across our product line. The Nitro Team is looking for engineers with systems knowledge and experience in areas such as Linux OS boot sequencing, Kernel, Hypervisor (Xen or KVM), peripheral device development (PCIe or NVMe) and building compute infrastructure to support High Memory and High performance computing workloads.

The Nitro High Memory and HPC team owns the purpose-built platform development for the High performance computing workloads and database workloads like SAP, Oracle and SQL with tens of terabytes of memory. The team interfaces directly with system BIOS for bare-metal instances and drives critical system interactions within the Nitro Hypervisor and across EC2 control-plane services. We need engineers with the dive-deep and ownership to work across domains (such as PC peripheral firmware or Linux Kernel internals) to deliver features and new instance types for our customers. Work is typically done in C/C++ or Rust with supporting scripts and tests in Python and Lua.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to platform development for High Memory and HPC workloads, collaborating across BIOS, hypervisor, and EC2 control-plane services.
• Work across domains (e.g., PC peripheral firmware, Linux kernel internals) to deliver features and new instance types.
• Design, implement, and optimize software in C/C++, Rust with supporting Python and Lua scripts and tests.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including reviews, testing, and operations.
• Own features from design through integration and deployment, with attention to reliability and performance.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year to $223,600/year, with variation based on location and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company; equity, sign-on payments, and other benefits may be provided as part of a total compensation package. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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