Senior OS Engineer — Container Runtime

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the Bottlerocket team in Seattle, WA. You will own core Bottlerocket OS components, update engines, and security hardening for millions of container hosts.

This role blends low-level systems programming with architecture leadership, mentorship, and collaboration across teams to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable solutions for AWS services and open-source contributions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Knowledge of system performance, memory management, and parallel computing principles

Responsibilities

• Design & build OS components — Develop and maintain core Bottlerocket subsystems (update engine, API server, host-container orchestration, settings management)
• Security-first development — Implement and maintain security features
• Open-source stewardship — Participate in upstream communities, review external contributions, publish RFCs, and maintain public documentation and tooling
• Cross-team integration — Collaborate with internal and external partner teams to ensure Bottlerocket meets orchestrator requirements and customer needs
• Operational excellence — Own the build and release pipeline, drive quality through automated testing, and support production rollouts
• Mentorship & technical leadership — Raise the bar through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring junior engineers on systems programming best practices

Skills

Linux

C/C++

Systems programming

Leadership

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the Bottlerocket team in Seattle, WA. You will own core Bottlerocket OS components, update engines, and security hardening for millions of container hosts.

This role blends low-level systems programming with architecture leadership, mentorship, and collaboration across teams to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable solutions for AWS services and open-source contributions.