responsibilities

This team and the role would be a good fit for you if you feel excited about the following

innovate and come up with a vision to bring the best system software to enterprise customers
improve the CI/CD process across multiple services/pipelines to increase development velocity
work collaboratively with team and other teams on solution development of both user and kernel space applications
work with Principal / Sr. Principals and Product management team to define solution technical roadmap
analyze business requirements and provide solution design with estimated work effort
create architecture design with resilience, scalability, and performance
assure the highest quality bar relentlessly with software development best practices
participate design and code review and provide insightful suggestions across products and/or teams
mentor junior team members and develop the best
participate in Agile development process and influence the process refinery

A day in the life

As a software development engineer, your daily tasks may include the following

Participate regularly in stand-ups and team meetings
Review design docs, code changes from team peers
Design, implement, and deploy the new software solution assigned to you or owned by team
Improve existing automation processes
Go through backlogs related with products you or team own
Participate in oncall rotation
Have fun and learn new AWS services and Windows technologies.

About the team

The EC2 Windows OST (OS Technologies) team owns the fundamental OS level software and services which enable the EC2 Windows offerings. We bring innovations to Windows OS so that Windows instances and enterprise workloads can perform best on AWS EC2 platforms. These innovations include but not limited to kernel drivers, user applications, and machine learning powered troubleshooting services. We also make efforts to provide fundamental support for other AWS teams to enable their services like Backup, High performance computing, Security and many others

Basic Qualifications

5+ years of non-internship 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
BS in CS/EE or related field with 10+ years of experience
MS/PhD in CS/EE or related field with 8+ years of experience.
Proficient in C/C++
Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, system architecture, software engineering basics
5+ years of experience in developing Windows user-mode or kernel-mode drivers
Familiar with at least one Windows driver development model, such as MiniPort, NDIS, StorPort, WDM, WDF etc
Deep understanding into OS level, familiar with either Windows or Linux kernels
Prior experience with at least one full software development cycle from architect, design, code, review, verification, automation, debugging / system-level troubleshooting, release / maintenance
Good communication skills in both verbal and written forms

Preferred Qualifications

5+ 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
Programming experience with other higher level languages, like PowerShell, Python, Rust, Golang etc
Knowledge in storage stack, familiar with NVMe protocol, Windows file system, storage space, S2D.
Knowledge about Virtualization technologies, Cloud-computing concepts
Knowledge about OS boot up sequences
Knowledge about security concepts, like TLS, PKI, attestation, Signing, Encryption, Certificate, TPM, Secure Boot, TEE
Knowledge about CPU technologies, like Intel SGX, Intel TDX, AMD SEV-SNP, ARM CCA
Experience with software performance, scale, or/and stress testing
Knowledge or experience with software performance evaluation or benchmarking
Comfortable in a fast-paced, start-up like environment
Passion to work with mission critical services and deliver the best to customers

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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USA, CA, Santa Clara

193,300.00
261,500.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Bellevue

168,100.00
227,400.00 USD annually

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USA, WA, Bellevue

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