Software Development Engineer, Nitro High Memory and HPC team

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the Nitro High Memory and HPC team. This role is part of EC2 Nitro, which drives the planet's largest, fastest growing, and most feature-rich compute cloud.

The Nitro team is responsible for AWS's 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 - Graviton3 - while raising the industry bar for security and performance across the product line.

As a Software Development Engineer on the Nitro High Memory and HPC team, you will:

• Own the purpose-built platform development for high-performance computing workloads and database workloads like SAP, Oracle, and SQL with tens of terabytes of memory.
• Interface directly with system BIOS for bare-metal instances and drive critical system interactions within the Nitro Hypervisor and across EC2 control-plane services.
• Work across domains such as PC peripheral firmware or Linux Kernel internals to deliver features and new instance types for customers.
• Develop primarily in C/C++ or Rust, with supporting scripts and tests in Python and Lua.

The ideal candidate will have strong systems knowledge and experience in areas such as:

• Linux OS boot sequencing
• Kernel development
• Hypervisor (Xen or KVM) development
• Peripheral device development (PCIe or NVMe)
• Building compute infrastructure to support High Memory and High-performance computing workloads

At AWS, we value work-life balance and offer a flexible working environment. We have a culture of inclusion with employee-led affinity groups and ongoing learning experiences. The team emphasizes mentorship and career growth, providing opportunities for engineers to develop into well-rounded professionals capable of taking on increasingly complex tasks.

Join us in shaping the future of cloud computing and pushing the boundaries of virtualization technology at a global scale.