SDE2: Open-Source Bottlerocket OS (Rust/Go)

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon Bottlerocket team is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to design, build, and maintain Bottlerocket — AWS's open-source, security-first container OS trusted to run production workloads at massive scale.

You will write Rust and Go on GitHub, shipping systems software that runs on millions of hosts worldwide. You will own features end-to-end, collaborate with EKS and ECS, and contribute to CI/CD and release tooling while improving OS delivery and security defaults.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using multiple languages.
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Rust-based OS components including system services, API servers, and update infrastructure for Bottlerocket.
• Own features end-to-end from design through production.
• Contribute to and maintain open-source code on GitHub, participating in public code reviews and community engagement.
• Investigate and resolve complex systems issues spanning kernel, userspace, container runtimes, and orchestrator integrations (EKS, ECS).
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, release tooling, and automated testing frameworks.
• Harden security defaults and implement OS-level protections.
• Partner cross-functionally with EKS, ECS, and security teams to design integrations.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback, and technical guidance.

Skills

Software development

Architecture design

SDE experience

OO design

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Math

Job description

Amazon Bottlerocket team is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to design, build, and maintain Bottlerocket — AWS's open-source, security-first container OS trusted to run production workloads at massive scale.

You will write Rust and Go on GitHub, shipping systems software that runs on millions of hosts worldwide. You will own features end-to-end, collaborate with EKS and ECS, and contribute to CI/CD and release tooling while improving OS delivery and security defaults.