Systems Engineer: EC2 Nitro High Memory HPC

Amazon; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon AWS Nitro team in Santa Clara is seeking engineers to design and optimize high-performance compute and memory platforms. You will work on Linux kernel, hypervisor interfaces, and ICS-like infrastructure to support EC2 bare-metal and specialized workloads.

Qualifications include 2+ years in software development and strong C/C++/Python/Java skills, plus experience in systems engineering and agile processes. The role emphasizes ownership and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 1+ years designing or architecting scalable systems.
• 7+ years in networking, storage, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering.
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, OS).
• Experience with modern languages such as C++, Java, Python, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage compute, database, storage, and related cloud services.
• Contribute to virtualization, hypervisor, and bare-metal infrastructure.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver new instance types and features.

Skills

Software development

System design

Systems engineering

C/C++

Python

Java

PowerShell

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Linux kernel

Job description

Amazon AWS Nitro team in Santa Clara is seeking engineers to design and optimize high-performance compute and memory platforms. You will work on Linux kernel, hypervisor interfaces, and ICS-like infrastructure to support EC2 bare-metal and specialized workloads.

Qualifications include 2+ years in software development and strong C/C++/Python/Java skills, plus experience in systems engineering and agile processes. The role emphasizes ownership and cross-team collaboration.