Software Development Engineer, EC2 Nitro

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Software Development Engineer to enhance its cloud infrastructure. This role involves working on the EC2 Nitro platform, which drives the world's largest cloud computing environment. You will be responsible for the end-to-end software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to implementation and support. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in languages like Java and Python, alongside a solid understanding of Linux and distributed systems. Join a diverse and inclusive team that values innovation and continuous improvement, and help shape the future of cloud technology.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience in a professional setting.
• Experience with design patterns, reliability, and scaling of systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the full software development lifecycle including requirements, design, and implementation.
• Collaborate with technical leaders to refine technical direction.

Skills

Java

C#

Python

Go

Ruby

Linux

Distributed Systems

Web Services

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Source Control Management

Testing Tools

Job description

Software Development Engineer, EC2 Nitro

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 - Graviton2 - while raising the industry bar for security and performance across our product line. The EC2 Server Provisioning team is the assembly line for EC2, turning new servers into EC2 virtualized hosts running customer workloads across the globe. Every EC2 customer instance running on every host-type, in every data center, across the globe has passed through services operated by this team. Engineers on EC2 Server Provisioning become subject matter experts on distributed, asynchronous services running at global scale.

If you are an experienced software development engineer who is passionate about building the platform to support the world’s premier cloud computing environment, then this is the job for you.

The EC2 Provisioning team lays the foundation on which every EC2 service - both internal and external - runs. The team is responsible for the software infrastructure that is required to make racks of hardware received from manufacturing into cloud infrastructure that allows our customers to run the wide variety of EC2 instances that are available today. The scale of this problem spans many millions of these devices across the globe and every new EC2 instance type launched is built through EC2 Provisioning services. To add some spice to the challenge - the infrastructure must be able to manage live devices without any downtime to our customer and keep the growing EC2 fleet healthy.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to drive product and operational excellence in this strategically critical space. Software Development Engineers work with technical leaders to refine technical direction, and then follow through with detailed analysis, designs, and quality code. They are equally comfortable leading small, focused project teams as well as making major direct contributions to the project. They deliver features with minimal direct oversight.

The baseline individual for this role will be entirely comfortable with the Linux operating system and understand how to develop in languages such as Java, C#, Python, Go or Ruby in a Linux environment. Knowledge of the use, design, and development of distributed systems and web services is preferred for this role.

Key job responsibilities

The infrastructure and technologies needed are growing and innovating at a rapid pace. Work is primarily done in Java and includes the full lifecycle of software development including: requirements, system design, implementation, testing, monitoring, support, alarming, and reporting. We own our software end-to-end. Software Development Engineers work closely with EC2 Principal Engineers and other technical leaders to refine technical direction, and then follow through with detailed analysis, designs, and high quality code.

A day in the life

This is a hands-on position in which you will own everything from end to end: requirements gathering, designs, design reviews, implementations, code reviews, incremental feature launches, operations, mentoring, and the driving of continuous improvement.

Minimum Requirements

1. 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2. 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
3. Experience programming with at least one software programming language
4. 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
5. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.