Amazon System Development Engineer Amazon Linux 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

789152006

Key job responsibilities
You will work with technical leaders to refine technical direction, and then follow through with detailed analysis, designs, and delivery. You will be leading small, focused project teams as well as making major direct contributions to the project. In this key role you will be responsible for developing and maintaining key components of Amazon Linux, such as base libraries, core utilities, and language runtimes.You should be comfortable with the Linux operating system and understand how to develop in languages such as C, C++, Python, and Ruby in a Linux environment. Experience with Linux package management, version control systems, automated build processes, and software unit testing are a must. An understanding of and experience in contributing to open source projects is a plus. Specific in depth knowledge of the use, design, and development of Linux operating system internals is required for this role.A day in the life
You will be staying up to date with how the Linux ecosystem is evolving so that we can improve the experience of using Amazon Linux. You will be making decisions on which packages to include in Amazon Linux and how to keep the OS current. You will engage with customers via GitHub and internal communication channels. In addition to engineering work, you will work with team members and stakeholders to review and discuss their work, priorities, and professional development. For planning and technical designs, you will write, read or review narrative documents and iterate on them.

- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Experience using the typical Linux toolbox of open source software and management tools.
- Skilled in at least two of C, shell, Python or Ruby.