Software Development Engineer, EC2 Nitro, EC2 Local Instance Store

About the role

The AWS EC2 Nitro team is building the foundation of cloud computing at unprecedented scale. EC2 Nitro powers the world's largest and fastest-growing compute cloud through ground-up virtualization design built on fully custom hardware, firmware, and applications. Our platform supports Intel, AMD, and Amazon's Graviton processors while setting industry standards for security and performance.

Responsibilities

• Built and operated systems that transparently migrate running virtual instances across physical infrastructure at scale.
• Maintain a seamless experience for millions of customers while performing fleet maintenance, responding to hardware failures, and optimizing host utilization.
• Developed tools and processes to automate testing, measure live migration performance, and develop observability to operate the service at scale.

Requirements

• A solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and embedded concepts.
• Expertise in C, C++, Rust or similar development in a Linux environment.
• Experience with Linux package management, version control systems, automated build processes, and software unit testing.
• Experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• Experience with Object Oriented Design.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• 3+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 3+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 3+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.