Description

　　We are seeking an experienced System Development Engineer to join one of the the industry-leading EC2 Accelerated Nitro teams. You will work on cutting-edge EC2 Accelerated Computing instance families that are pushing cloud technology forward. This high-impact role will involve owning platform bring-up and integration for new EC2 offerings, developing automated tests, diagnosing issues quickly, and building automation to monitor metrics and reliability. Your work will directly enhance the customer experience and performance of the virtualization layer, the lowest layer of the AWS software stack.

　　EC2 Accelerated Nitro is an organization that powers the EC2 Nitro instance families, focusing on hypervisors, virtualization and accelerated computing. We build highly operable quiescent hypervisors that provide near bare metal performance to EC2 instances. We also integrate hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) into the EC2 instance families to support advanced workloads, such as machine learning, high performance computing, inference or graphics processing.

　　For more information please feel free to visit https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/

　　Key job responsibilities

　　Own the end-to-end software development lifecycle to build innovative virtualization solutions, including designing, testing, and deploying new components across the stack.

　　Drive operational excellence by enhancing virtualization software and instance platform quality through robust testing, monitoring, and automation.

　　Influence the technological roadmap by contributing ideas and solutions that improve performance and reliability.

　　Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams worldwide to implement cutting-edge virtualization capabilities.

　　Participate in an on-call rotation, working closely with the team to quickly identify, troubleshoot, and resolve system issues to ensure fault tolerance.

　　Partner with hardware, software, and firmware groups to execute infrastructure plans enabling next-gen machine learning and spatial computing acceleration.

　　Dive deep on critical infrastructure challenges involving networking, compute clusters, test automation, and virtualization software.

　　Execute and scale cloud infrastructure leveraging AWS services and frameworks.

　　Lead design reviews and work with vendors to implement full system architectures.

　　Identify and champion process improvements to enhance team agility, speed, and operations.

　　Develop health monitoring, diagnostics, repair automation, and runbooks to optimize reliability.

　　A day in the life

　　Innovate daily on the EC2 Accelerated Nitro team to advance cloud computing.

　　Collaborate with top minds to quickly solve complex technical challenges.

　　Develop virtualization components, design infrastructure automation, perform rigorous testing, and troubleshoot issues to ensure resilient systems.

　　Work hands-on optimizing custom silicon some days, enhancing the software stack on others.

　　Interact with partners worldwide to execute infrastructure plans.

　　Make an impact on our customer experience by joining our team passionate about pushing technology forward.

　　About the team

　　The EC2 Accelerated Nitro teams push boundaries to accelerate cloud adoption across every workload. We pioneer cutting-edge EC2 instance families with specialized hardware, leaving no application behind. Our team builds the most robust virtualization technology, empowering customers to reimagine demanding workloads in the cloud. By rapidly delivering innovations in accelerated computing, we provide unmatched performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency. EC2 Accelerated Nitro makes AWS the undisputed home of forward-thinking companies ready to transform their business.

　　We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

　　Berlin, BE, DEU

　　Basic Qualifications

　　1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

　　2+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience

　　Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)

　　Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby

　　Experience with Linux/Unix

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure

　　Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

　　Hands on experience of working with Linux distribution

　　BS in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience

　　Experience of scripting language (Python or Ruby)

　　Experience using the typical Linux command line toolbox

　　Understanding of operating systems internals, systems and debugging

　　Experience with typical server provisioning systems

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