Systems Software Engineer — Linux Kernel & HPC Compute

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 165,000 - 224,000; 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. in Santa Clara, CA, USA is seeking engineers for the Nitro High Memory and HPC team. You will contribute to the Nitro hypervisor stack, support high-memory and HPC workloads, and deliver new instance types for EC2.

The role emphasizes systems programming in C/C++ and Rust, kernel familiarity, and cross-domain ownership. Ideal candidates have 3+ years in software development, with architectures design experience and a degree in CS or equivalent.

Qualifications

• 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2 years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Deliver features and new instance types for Nitro compute infrastructure.
• Work across domains such as Linux kernel internals and peripheral firmware to enable high memory and HPC workloads.

Skills

Software development

Design/Architecture

C/C++

Rust

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

C/C++

Rust

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Santa Clara, CA, USA is seeking engineers for the Nitro High Memory and HPC team. You will contribute to the Nitro hypervisor stack, support high-memory and HPC workloads, and deliver new instance types for EC2.

The role emphasizes systems programming in C/C++ and Rust, kernel familiarity, and cross-domain ownership. Ideal candidates have 3+ years in software development, with architectures design experience and a degree in CS or equivalent.