• 3+ years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience of writing clean,optimized and scalable code using C or Rust
• 3+ years of experience using the typical Linux command line toolbox
• Understanding of operating systems internals

Desirable

• EC2 is looking for an experienced Kernel & Hypervisor Engineer for one of our virtualization organizations
• As part of the team, you will be given the chance to have a significant impact on our systems, our business and most importantly our customers, working in diverse work environment with a flexible schedule
• You will be building the lowest layer of the Amazon Web Services software stack, engineering new EC2 instance families and developing the EC2 Nitro Hypervisor for AWS
• You will have the opportunity to innovate, make new engineering proposals, and explore new areas
• EC2 Accelerated Nitro is an organization that powers the EC2 Nitro instance families, focusing on hypervisors, virtualization and accelerated computing
• We build highly operable quiescent hypervisors that provide near bare metal performance to EC2 instances. We also integrate hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) into the EC2 instance families to support advanced workloads, such as machine learning, high performance computing, inference or graphics processing
• We also integrate hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) into the EC2 instance families to support advanced workloads, such as machine learning, high performance computing, inference or graphics processing
• As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS
• Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.EC2 is looking for an experienced Kernel & Hypervisor Engineer for one of our virtualization organizations. As part of the team, you will be given the chance to have a significant impact on our systems, our business and most importantly our customers, working in diverse work environment with a flexible schedule
• You will be building the lowest layer of the Amazon Web Services software stack, engineering new EC2 instance families and developing the EC2 Nitro Hypervisor for AWS. You will have the opportunity to innovate, make new engineering proposals, and explore new areas
• Take end to end ownership of the software development life cycle: You will build new solutions across the virtualization software stack; developing virtualization components and automating infrastructure flows. This includes design, testing and deployment
• Drive operational excellence, improving the quality of the hypervisor and our instance platforms
• Influence and contribute to the technological roadmap of your team
• Work with other EC2 teams like hardware, software and firmware groups across the globe, driving innovative solutions
• This position involves On-call responsibility. We work as a team to root-cause the issues and ensure our systems are resilient and fault-tolerant
• A day in the life
• You will:
• Work with your manager and other engineers in delivering to the roadmap
• Focus on high quality delivery and operational excellence
• Solve technical challenges impacting our customers