Junior Kernel/Hypervisor Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

EC2 Accelerated Nitro

Our customers strive to solve complex challenges through innovation. We empower our customers to innovate by building spearheading technology. Our technology is the foundation our customers use to drive innovation efficiently, and nimbly. We attentively listen to our customers to build pioneering technology, holding high standards, and working towards earning and keeping their trust. We are EC2 Accelerated Nitro, the organization that crafts and releases the hypervisors that power the EC2 Nitro fleet, and that drives the engineering parts of the EC2 Accelerated Computing business. 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.

We are located in the beautiful city of Dresden, in Germany. You can check out our location here: https://youtu.be/NyJQL6keFBA

Position

Amazon is looking for an experienced Linux Kernel Developer for a Kernel and Operating System team. As part of the team, you will be given the chance to have a significant impact on our systems, our business and most importantly our customers.

If you are passionate about Hypervisors, have deep technical knowledge and want to build solutions to challenging problems that directly affect millions of people: there may be no better place than Amazon for you to impact the world!

You will be responsible for the lowest layer of the Amazon Web Services software stack, managing the Linux Kernel and Hypervisor development for AWS.

You will be improving the Linux Kernel to be used as a Dom0 operating system as well as a guest operating system.

Your work will focus on new features and performance and reliability improvements for server workloads. You will be working on key areas of the Linux Kernel such as:
· Hypervisor
· Block I/O
· Networking
· PV Driver
· IOMMU

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Basic understanding of performance critical areas of the Linux Kernel
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Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· BS in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience
· 1+ years of experience working on the Linux Kernel
· Strong skill in C programming
· Proficient in at least one CPU architecture such as x86 or ARM.
· Direct experience with Linux kernel and virtualization development