Embedded Software Development Engineer II (C/C++), AWS EC2 VPC NX

Key job responsibilities

• Lead architecture decisions for fairness algorithms and resource allocation systems within the Nitro hypervisor
• Mentor junior engineers on low-level C/Rust programming and embedded system development practices
• Conduct design and code reviews for performance-critical fairness mechanisms
• Drive implementation of resource isolation and scheduling policies in embedded Nitro environments
• Analyze customer workload patterns to identify fairness violations and noisy neighbor scenarios
• Design and implement hardware-aware fairness algorithms leveraging CPU cache locality, memory bandwidth, and network resources
• Collaborate with hardware engineering teams to optimize packet-pipeline software and hardware offloads for equitable resource sharing
• Set and achieve fairness performance goals for new instance types and Nitro hardware generations
• Partner with hardware/firmware teams on co-designing fairness enforcements
• Collaborate with other engineering vertical teams to ensure fairness features integrate seamlessly across the stack
• Communicate fairness requirements and technical designs to senior management and product teams
• Evaluate emerging technologies for ML-based instance types and their impact on resource fairness
• Develop real-time fairness monitoring and enforcement systems operating at microsecond latencies
• Implement dynamic resource allocation policies that adapt to changing workload characteristics
• Design telemetry and observability systems to measure and validate fairness across multi-tenant environments

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Experience in embedded development in C/C++

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 2+ years of embedded firmware development experience