Sr Software Engineer EC2 Windows
Sr Software Engineer EC2 Windows
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30-04-2025
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$ 151300 - 261500
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1 Vacancy
Posted on :
30-04-2025
Job Description
Do you want to help shape the future of compute for the Amazon Web Services cloud
The EC2 Instance Platform organization is responsible for tackling tough problems faced by enterprise customers via cloudbased solutions. The team uses cuttingedge technologies to develop largescale platforms to help customers optimally run their business.
We are hiring Senior Software Development Engineers to make Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 the best place to run enterprise class workloads. As part of our team you will help build next generation services that simplifies how our customers and partners configure and manage high performance computing workloads on the cloud. You will closely work with various prerelease Amazon technologies and build services that handle large scale highly available distributed systems.
We are looking for Software Development Engineers who are passionate about working on cutting edge technologies who bring deep technical knowledge and who have experience with distributed systems to drive technical design and implement endend solutions. If youre into operating systems how software interfaces with hardware file systems or just working on challenging software problems where performance and code size still matter come and join us. The ideal candidate for this position is a software engineer excited to work in a cloud scale environment who has a strong track record of developing and delivering Windows user or kernelmode drivers in a system level programming language such as C/C.
Here at AWS we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employeeled affinity groups reaching 40000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings and host annual and ongoing learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives learn and be curious and earn trust.
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Key job responsibilities
This team and the role would be a good fit for you if you feel excited about the following
* innovate and come up with a vision to bring the best system software to enterprise customers
* improve the CI/CD process across multiple services/pipelines to increase development velocity
* work collaboratively with team and other teams on solution development of both user and kernel space applications
* work with Principal / Sr. Principals and Product management team to define solution technical roadmap
* analyze business requirements and provide solution design with estimated work effort
* create architecture design with resilience scalability and performance
* assure the highest quality bar relentlessly with software development best practices
* participate design and code review and provide insightful suggestions across products and/or teams
* mentor junior team members and develop the best
* participate in Agile development process and influence the process refinery
A day in the life
As a software development engineer your daily tasks may include the following
* Participate regularly in standups and team meetings
* Review design docs code changes from team peers
* Design implement and deploy the new software solution assigned to you or owned by team
* Improve existing automation processes
* Go through backlogs related with products you or team own
* Participate in oncall rotation
* Have fun and learn new AWS services and Windows technologies.
About the team
The EC2 Windows OST (OS Technologies) team owns the fundamental OS level software and services which enable the EC2 Windows offerings. We bring innovations to Windows OS so that Windows instances and enterprise workloads can perform best on AWS EC2 platforms. These innovations include but not limited to kernel drivers user applications and machine learning powered troubleshooting services. We also make efforts to provide fundamental support for other AWS teams to enable their services like Backup High performance computing Security and many others
5 years of noninternship professional software development experience
5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
BS in CS/EE or related field with 10 years of experience
MS/PhD in CS/EE or related field with 8 years of experience.
Proficient in C/C
Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms data structures system architecture software engineering basics
5 years of experience in developing Windows usermode or kernelmode drivers
Familiar with at least one Windows driver development model such as MiniPort NDIS StorPort WDM WDF etc
Deep understanding into OS level familiar with either Windows or Linux kernels
Prior experience with at least one full software development cycle from architect design code review verification automation debugging / systemlevel troubleshooting release / maintenance
Good communication skills in both verbal and written forms
5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Programming experience with other higher level languages like PowerShell Python Rust Golang etc
Knowledge in storage stack familiar with NVMe protocol Windows file system storage space S2D.
Knowledge about Virtualization technologies Cloudcomputing concepts
Knowledge about OS boot up sequences
Knowledge about security concepts like TLS PKI attestation Signing Encryption Certificate TPM Secure Boot TEE
Knowledge about CPU technologies like Intel SGX Intel TDX AMD SEVSNP ARM CCA
Experience with software performance scale or/and stress testing
Knowledge or experience with software performance evaluation or benchmarking
Comfortable in a fastpaced startup like environment
Passion to work with mission critical services and deliver the best to customers
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
The EC2 Instance Platform organization is responsible for tackling tough problems faced by enterprise customers via cloudbased solutions. The team uses cuttingedge technologies to develop largescale platforms to help customers optimally run their business.
We are hiring Senior Software Development Engineers to make Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 the best place to run enterprise class workloads. As part of our team you will help build next generation services that simplifies how our customers and partners configure and manage high performance computing workloads on the cloud. You will closely work with various prerelease Amazon technologies and build services that handle large scale highly available distributed systems.
We are looking for Software Development Engineers who are passionate about working on cutting edge technologies who bring deep technical knowledge and who have experience with distributed systems to drive technical design and implement endend solutions. If youre into operating systems how software interfaces with hardware file systems or just working on challenging software problems where performance and code size still matter come and join us. The ideal candidate for this position is a software engineer excited to work in a cloud scale environment who has a strong track record of developing and delivering Windows user or kernelmode drivers in a system level programming language such as C/C.
Here at AWS we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employeeled affinity groups reaching 40000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings and host annual and ongoing learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives learn and be curious and earn trust.
10017
Key job responsibilities
This team and the role would be a good fit for you if you feel excited about the following
* innovate and come up with a vision to bring the best system software to enterprise customers
* improve the CI/CD process across multiple services/pipelines to increase development velocity
* work collaboratively with team and other teams on solution development of both user and kernel space applications
* work with Principal / Sr. Principals and Product management team to define solution technical roadmap
* analyze business requirements and provide solution design with estimated work effort
* create architecture design with resilience scalability and performance
* assure the highest quality bar relentlessly with software development best practices
* participate design and code review and provide insightful suggestions across products and/or teams
* mentor junior team members and develop the best
* participate in Agile development process and influence the process refinery
A day in the life
As a software development engineer your daily tasks may include the following
* Participate regularly in standups and team meetings
* Review design docs code changes from team peers
* Design implement and deploy the new software solution assigned to you or owned by team
* Improve existing automation processes
* Go through backlogs related with products you or team own
* Participate in oncall rotation
* Have fun and learn new AWS services and Windows technologies.
About the team
The EC2 Windows OST (OS Technologies) team owns the fundamental OS level software and services which enable the EC2 Windows offerings. We bring innovations to Windows OS so that Windows instances and enterprise workloads can perform best on AWS EC2 platforms. These innovations include but not limited to kernel drivers user applications and machine learning powered troubleshooting services. We also make efforts to provide fundamental support for other AWS teams to enable their services like Backup High performance computing Security and many others
5 years of noninternship professional software development experience
5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
BS in CS/EE or related field with 10 years of experience
MS/PhD in CS/EE or related field with 8 years of experience.
Proficient in C/C
Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms data structures system architecture software engineering basics
5 years of experience in developing Windows usermode or kernelmode drivers
Familiar with at least one Windows driver development model such as MiniPort NDIS StorPort WDM WDF etc
Deep understanding into OS level familiar with either Windows or Linux kernels
Prior experience with at least one full software development cycle from architect design code review verification automation debugging / systemlevel troubleshooting release / maintenance
Good communication skills in both verbal and written forms
5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Programming experience with other higher level languages like PowerShell Python Rust Golang etc
Knowledge in storage stack familiar with NVMe protocol Windows file system storage space S2D.
Knowledge about Virtualization technologies Cloudcomputing concepts
Knowledge about OS boot up sequences
Knowledge about security concepts like TLS PKI attestation Signing Encryption Certificate TPM Secure Boot TEE
Knowledge about CPU technologies like Intel SGX Intel TDX AMD SEVSNP ARM CCA
Experience with software performance scale or/and stress testing
Knowledge or experience with software performance evaluation or benchmarking
Comfortable in a fastpaced startup like environment
Passion to work with mission critical services and deliver the best to customers
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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