Software Development Engineer, Nitro High Memory and HPC team

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. Nitro has enabled EC2 to support Intel, AMD and Amazon's custom silicon - Graviton3 - while raising the industry bar for security and performance across our product line.

The Nitro High Memory and HPC team owns the purpose built platform development for the High performance computing workloads and database workloads like SAP, Oracle and SQL with tens of terra-byte of memories. Team interfaces directly with system BIOS for bare-metal instances and drives critical system interactions within the Nitro Hypervisor and across EC2 control-plane services.

We need engineers with the dive-deep and ownership to work across domains (such as PC peripheral firmware or Linux Kernel internals) to deliver features and new instance types for our customers. Work is typically done in C/C++ or Rust with supporting script and tests in Python and Lua.

Key aspects of the role:

1. Develop and maintain high-performance computing and high-memory solutions
2. Interface with system BIOS and Nitro Hypervisor
3. Work on critical system interactions across EC2 control-plane services
4. Deliver new features and instance types for customers
5. Utilize programming languages like C/C++, Rust, Python, and Lua

Amazon offers a diverse and inclusive work environment, with a strong focus on work-life balance. The company provides flexibility in working hours and encourages employees to find a balance that brings energy to both personal and professional lives.

The team is dedicated to supporting new members, offering mentorship and knowledge sharing opportunities. Senior members provide one-on-one mentoring and thorough code reviews. The team strives to assign projects that help each member develop into a better-rounded engineer and take on more complex tasks in the future.

Join us to be part of a team that's driving the future of cloud computing and high-performance infrastructure at a global scale.