Amazon Software Development Engineer Kernel/Hypervisor Security EC2 KaOS 

Germany, Saxony, Dresden 

656138877

You will take ownership of security tooling in support of our security mission, and work on low level security issues in operating system kernels and hypervisors that form our virtualization stack.You will develop and use scalable tooling for security testing, fuzzing, and continually delivering secure kernels, hypervisors, and operating system components. Much code targets are implemented in C and similar low level languages, most of our tooling in Python running on GNU/Linux.
Key job responsibilitiesKey job responsibilities
- Develop code analysis tools, security scanners, and fuzzing tools
- Maintain and improve security tooling
- Help evaluate security problems in Kernels and Hypervisors, and related components
- Reproduce security issues, propose security mitigations, and contribute to their deployment
- Continuous process improvementsA day in the life
- Develop solutions for your technical goals
- Review code from your peers and discuss your own code
- Contribute to and review design documents
- Over time, start mentoring other and interviewing new colleagues
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Dresden, DEU

- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Programming experience in C and at least one scripting language like Ruby, Python or Bash

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Affinity or experience in static code analysis, fuzzing or security testing
- Exposure to virtualization technologies
- Knowledge in Linux kernels, Linux distributions, or similar operating environments