Embedded Software Engineer II: Nitro Fairness (C/C++)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 144,000 - 194,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle is seeking an Embedded Software Development Engineer II (C/C++) to join the EC2 Nitro Fairness team, focusing on equitable resource sharing across millions of EC2 instances within the Nitro hypervisor.

You will design advanced fairness algorithms and real-time schedulers that operate at microsecond latencies. The role requires deep understanding of virtualization, distributed systems, and performance optimization, with collaboration across

Qualifications

3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture of new and existing systems.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture decisions for fairness algorithms and resource allocation in the Nitro hypervisor.
Mentor junior engineers on low-level C/Rust programming and embedded system practices.
Conduct design and code reviews for performance-critical fairness mechanisms.
Drive implementation of resource isolation and scheduling policies in embedded Nitro environments.
Analyze workload patterns to identify fairness violations and noisy neighbors.
Design hardware-aware fairness algorithms leveraging CPU cache locality, memory bandwidth, and network resources.
Collaborate with hardware teams to optimize packet-pipeline software and offloads for equitable sharing.
Set and achieve fairness performance goals for new instance types and Nitro generations.