Software Development Engineer, Nitro High Memory and HPC team

Amazon is a global leader in e-commerce and cloud computing, known for innovation and customer-centric approach.
$129,300 - $223,600
Backend
Mid-Level Software Engineer
Hybrid
5,000+ Employees
3+ years of experience
AI · Enterprise SaaS

Description For 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. Inclusive Team Culture: AWS embraces differences and is committed to furthering a culture of inclusion.
  2. Work/Life Balance: The team values work-life balance and offers flexibility in working hours.
  3. Mentorship & Career Growth: The team supports new members with knowledge sharing and mentorship opportunities.

Qualifications:

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon offers a competitive compensation package, including equity and a range of benefits. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year to $223,600/year, depending on the geographic market.

Last updated 10 days ago

Responsibilities For Software Development Engineer, Nitro High Memory and HPC team

  • Develop features and new instance types for EC2 Nitro
  • Work on high performance computing and database workloads
  • Interface with system BIOS for bare-metal instances
  • Drive critical system interactions within the Nitro Hypervisor
  • Work across domains such as PC peripheral firmware and Linux Kernel internals

Requirements For Software Development Engineer, Nitro High Memory and HPC team

Rust
Python
Linux
  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Benefits For Software Development Engineer, Nitro High Memory and HPC team

Medical Insurance
Equity
  • Medical Insurance
  • Equity
  • 401k

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