EC2 is looking for an experienced Senior 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 the Nitro Hypervisor and new EC2 instance families 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 engineering the Nitro Hypervisor and 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.
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. 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.
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Key job responsibilities
- Take end to end ownership of the software development life cycle, building new solutions across the virtualization software stack and influencing virtualization components. This includes design, testing and deployment.
- Drive operational excellence, improving the quality of the hypervisor and our instance platforms.
- Lead other engineers, improving processes, and partnering with product and program managers.
- 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
- Work with your manager, and principal engineers in delivering to our roadmap.
- Lead engineers in your team towards high quality and operational excellence.
- Influence the EC2 roadmap with new ideas that solve customer challenges.
About the team
EC2 Accelerated Nitro has the two-fold mission:
- Leave no customer workload on-premises by engineering new EC2 instance families with hardware acceleration devices.
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- Build the most feature-rich virtualization technology in the cloud.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- 5+ years of programming experience with C /Rust or any compiled language.
- Direct experience with Linux kernel and/or virtualization development.
- 5+ years of experience using the typical Linux command line toolbox.
- Proficient in at least one CPU architecture such as x86 or ARM and hands on experience working on the Linux Kernel.
- Advanced understanding of performance critical areas of the Linux Kernel.
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