Software Dev Engineer II, EC2 Nitro

EC2 Nitro drives the planet's largest, fastest growing and most feature-rich compute cloud. Nitro is AWS' ground-up design for virtualization at global scale built on a fully custom stack of hardware, firmware and applications. Nitro has enabled EC2 to support Intel, AMD and Amazon's custom silicon - the Graviton processor family - while raising the industry bar for security and performance across our product line.

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to drive development for new EC2 compute platforms. In this role, you will work with a broad and deep group of technical teams that develop hardware, firmware, systems and application software. You will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying large-scale software running across AWS data centers. You will collaborate closely with EC2 teams to help curate the team's roadmap, drive system architecture, spearhead best practices that enable a quality product, and help coach and develop junior engineers.

The ideal candidate should have:

• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals
• Expertise in C, C++ or Rust development in a Linux environment
• Experience with Linux package management, version control systems, automated build processes, and software unit testing
• In-depth knowledge of Linux operating system internals (preferred)

You will be part of the EC2 Nitro team that owns instance-facing services including:

• Exception Services
• IMDS (web server for instance configuration)
• DNS
• RusTick (time)
• Windows activation
• Infrastructure to launch and live update these services

This software runs on Nitro (PCI) cards installed in all EC2 Nitro hosts.

Join us to work on cutting-edge technology that powers the world's most advanced cloud computing platform!