Amazon Software Development Engineer II - Linux 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

293168106

As a SDE working on Niva OS, you will tailor an Ubuntu-based distribution for our use cases and enforce a verifiable chain of trust from boot to userspace. You’ll curate and build Debian and Snap packages, sign artifacts, and automate image builds and optimze OTA/rollback flows. You will integrate Secure Boot, kernel lockdown, dm-verity, and measured boot with TPM 2.0 and remote attestation. You are comfortable in Java, C++, Shell scripting and Python in a Linux environment. Prior contributions to upstream Linux or other open-source projects are a plus.
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- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience in one or more of these areas: Experience in Ubuntu Linux customization on X86 based platforms. Proficiency in Python and Java for production-quality software. Experience with Linux low-level system development.

- 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
- Demonstrated ability to take a project from initial scoping to the launch.
- Experience in designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems.
- Demonstrated ability to distill problem definitions, models, and constraints from informal business requirements, and to deal with ambiguity and competing objectives.
- Demonstrated ability to resolve conflicts and technical disagreements while leading the team to the optimal solution.
- Passion for building new products in a fast paced, team-oriented environment
- Experience in developing and launching public Amazon Web Services.
- Experience in Linux kernel and/or device driver development, kernel development and performance optimization.