Amazon Sr Kernel/Hypervisor Engineer EC2 Accelerated Nitro 

Germany, Berlin 

335686979

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)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.A day in the life
- Work with your manager, and principal engineers in delivering to our roadmap.
- Build the most feature-rich virtualization technology in the cloud.About AWS
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- 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 in professional, non-internship software development
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience in development in the last 3 years
- 5+ years of programming experience with C /Rust or any compiled language.
- Direct experience with Linux kernel and/or virtualization development.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- 5+ years of experience using the typical Linux command line toolbox.
- Hands on experience working on the Linux Kernel.
- Proficient in at least one CPU architecture such as x86 or ARM.
- Advanced understanding of performance critical areas of the Linux Kernel.