Sr. Software Development Engineer, EC2 Nitro (Level 6), EC2 Nitro Specialized Instances

EC2 Nitro drives the planet’s largest, fastest growing and most feature-rich compute cloud. Nitro is AWS’ 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 - the Graviton processor family - while raising the industry bar for security and performance across our product line.

We integrate hardware, firmware, application software and services to deliver new virtualized and bare-metal compute platforms for companies from startups through the Fortune 500. We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to drive development for new EC2 compute platforms. In this role, a Senior SDE will provide technical leadership for a broad and deep group of technical teams that encompass hardware, firmware, systems and application software. This engineer will work closely with other Senior, Principal, Senior Principal Engineers throughout AWS to define technical direction and follow through with world-class execution. The desired candidate must be equally adept in design and architecture for large complex projects and making major direct contributions in code and providing hands-on coaching and mentoring.

Key Job Responsibilities

1. Lead projects that require the work of multiple engineers.
2. Own team architecture, providing a system-wide view and design guidance. Become a key influencer in team strategy and goals.
3. Set a culture of robust and exemplary software development practices in terms of code organization, clarity, simplicity, error handling, and documentation.
4. Influence your team’s long-term technical investments by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach.
5. Actively coach or mentor multiple other engineers.

Minimum Requirements

1. 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
2. 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
3. 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
4. Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
5. 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
6. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

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