Senior Software Development Engineer, EC2 Nitro

EC2 Nitro drives the planet's largest, fastest growing and most feature-rich compute cloud. Nitro is AWS's ground-up design for virtualization at global scale built on a fully custom stack of hardware, firmware and applications.

The EC2 Server Provisioning team is responsible for the software infrastructure that transforms hardware racks into cloud infrastructure supporting various EC2 instance types. Operating at a massive scale of millions of devices globally, the team ensures seamless management of live devices without customer downtime.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will:

• Work with technical leaders to refine technical direction and deliver high-quality code
• Lead small project teams and make significant direct contributions
• Develop in languages like Java, C#, Python, Go or Ruby in a Linux environment
• Design and implement distributed systems and web services
• Own the full software lifecycle from requirements to operations

The team offers:

• Work-life harmony with flexible working hours
• Strong mentorship and knowledge sharing culture
• Career growth opportunities and skill development
• Collaborative environment with diverse perspectives

You'll be working on critical infrastructure that supports AWS's cloud computing environment, managing the provisioning and health of EC2 instances across global data centers. The role involves working with distributed, asynchronous services at global scale, making you a subject matter expert in cloud infrastructure.

The position requires expertise in Linux systems, software development, and distributed systems architecture. You'll be responsible for the end-to-end ownership of projects, from requirements gathering to operational support.