Kernel Development Engineer, Amazon Linux

Kernel Development Engineer, Amazon Linux

Job ID: 2496384 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Come build the future of Linux at Amazon with the Amazon Linux Team!

If you are an experienced software developer in Linux Kernel who is passionate about building the platform to support the world’s premier cloud computing environment, then this is the job for you.

Kernel Development Engineers implement the team's technical direction in their work with the upstream Linux community, and the Kernels distributed internally. They dive into reported kernel issues and provide detailed analysis and changes that can be upstreamed. They are comfortable doing so independently or as part of a small project teams.

The baseline individual for this role will be comfortable with the Linux Kernel and understand how to develop in languages such as C, Assembly and Python in a Linux environment. Experience with Linux package management, version control systems, automated build processes, and software unit testing are a must. Knowledge in Linux kernel internals is required for this role. An understanding of and experience in contributing to open source projects is a plus.

About the team
The Kernel and Operating System group is responsible for the design and maintenance of all of Amazon's core compute platforms, with a special focus on EC2, the Elastic Compute Cloud that is the basis for much of Amazon Web Services (AWS). We're also responsible for tools associated with the performance characterization, qualification, build and deployment of our Linux platforms.

The Amazon Linux Kernel team is responsible for providing a secure, reliable, robust and performant kernel for EC2 platforms. The Amazon Linux Kernel is our flagship product.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Previous contributions to the Linux kernel

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