Amazon Senior Linux Distribution Maintainer Amazon 

Germany, Saxony, Dresden 

758268131

You will develop, maintain and keep secure the foundational components of Amazon EC2. You will monitor live operation metrics to ensure that we are delivering the best experience to our customers at any time.Key job responsibilities
- Assess security vulnerabilities in open source software components
- Provide updates for rpm packages containing security and functional fixes
- Develop and maintain solutions for monitoring virtualization host resources
- Review code of your peers and have your code reviewed (C, C++, Python, Perl, Shell)
- This role includes on-call responsibility
- With your peers make sure your documentation and runbooks are helpfulA day in the life
- Get some coding done
- Regularly meet with peers, mentors and manager 1:1- Get some more coding done and resolve tickets that have been bugging youAbout AWS
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- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, Ruby