Senior Kernel & Hypervisor Engineer (EC2 Nitro)

Amazon Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a Senior Kernel/Hypervisor Engineer to join EC2 Core Compute to help build the Nitro Hypervisor and form the backbone of Amazon EC2’s virtualization stack.

You will own end-to-end software development across the virtualization stack, mentor engineers, and collaborate with hardware/firmware teams to drive innovations for EC2 instance families. This role offers a collaborative, diverse environment with flexible scheduling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming experience in at least one software programming language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Take end to end ownership of the software development life cycle across the virtualization stack; designing, testing and deploying virtualization components.
• 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.

Skills

Software development

Programming experience

Leadership / mentoring

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a Senior Kernel/Hypervisor Engineer to join EC2 Core Compute to help build the Nitro Hypervisor and form the backbone of Amazon EC2’s virtualization stack.

You will own end-to-end software development across the virtualization stack, mentor engineers, and collaborate with hardware/firmware teams to drive innovations for EC2 instance families. This role offers a collaborative, diverse environment with flexible scheduling.