Senior Software Development Engineer, EC2 Nitro

Are you passionate about technology and solving hard problems Do you want to grow your skills as you help us grow and scale the worlds largest cloud computing service Do you want to make history and have fun doing it If so Amazon Web Services Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) is looking for people just like you! EC2 is at the core of AWS services and we are growing every day to meet the demands of our business as we continue to scale.

EC2 Nitro drives the planets largest fastest growing and most featurerich compute cloud. Nitro is AWSs groundup design for virtualization at a global scale built on a fully custom stack of hardware firmware and applications. Nitro has enabled EC2 to support Intel AMD and Amazons custom silicon Graviton while raising the industry bar for security and performance across our product line. The EC2 Provisioning team is the assembly line for EC2 turning new servers into EC2 virtualized hosts running customer workloads across the globe. Every EC2 customer instance running on every hosttype in every data center across the globe has passed through services operated by this team. EC2 Provisioning engineers become subject matter experts on distributed asynchronous services running at global scale.

Our system maintains EC2 fleet health by safely orchestrating rack maintenance migrations and retirements by through orchestration based on compute capacity needs and availability forecast. The teams problem space is diverse and interesting and you will have ample opportunity to work with a variety of exciting technologies in support of maximizing the health of all compute workloads across our system maintains EC2 fleet health by safely orchestrating rack maintenance migrations and retirements by through orchestration based on compute capacity needs and availability forecast. The teams problem space is diverse and interesting and you will have ample opportunity to work with a variety of exciting technologies in support of maximizing the health of all compute workloads across our infrastructure.

This role requires strong knowledge and experience on how to develop in languages such as Java Python Go or Ruby in a Linux environment and includes the full lifecycle of software development including requirements system design implementation testing monitoring alarming and reporting. Software Development Engineers work closely with EC2 Principal Engineers and other technical leaders to refine technical direction and then follow through with detailed analysis designs and high quality code.

Key job responsibilities
EC2 engineers are constantly challenged to think of unique and innovative solutions. The quality bar is high. As an engineer here you will work on the hardest engineering problems in distributed systems at a massive scale and on multiple dimensions. You will exercise your intellectual curiosity work with motivated teams of sharp individuals and get insightful guidance from senior and principal engineers.

A day in the life
This is a handson position in which you will own everything from end to end: requirements gathering designs design reviews implementations code reviews incremental feature launches operations mentoring and the driving of continuous improvement.

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

5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Masters degree in computer science or equivalent

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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.