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Systems Development Engineer , AWS EC2 Nitro Team

Amazon· Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
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Santa Clara, CA$148.7k - $201.2kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Join the AWS EC2 Nitro team building the foundation of cloud computing at unprecedented scale. Develop and maintain the EC2 Nitro platform, focusing on hardware, firmware, and software for next-generation EC2 machine learning platforms, with emphasis on performance, availability, scalability, and durability of customer data.

Responsibilities

  • Developing tools to streamline operations as we scale to reduce operational load and improve our overall operational posture. Influencing & driving operational excellence and best practices within the organization.
  • Identifying ways to increase the automate and improve our test infrastructure and make our CI/CD more robust and flexible
  • Playing a key role in investigating and recommending best practices for maintaining and improving code quality, fleet health, and security & reliability of our service.
  • Growing our talent through actively mentoring junior engineers, improving their skills, their knowledge of our systems, and their ability to get things done. Sharing your knowledge with wider teams and writing clear and concise documentation to allow other engineers to get the most out of the service and tools.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • 7+ 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

Skills

Required:Non-internship software developmentSystem design and architectureNetworking, storage, OS fundamentalsProgramming languages

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
  • EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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