Amazon Web Services (AWS) ยท 4 days ago
Sr. Software Engineer - EC2 Windows OS Technologies team, EC2 Windows
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$151K/yr - $262K/yr
5+ years expAmazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking Senior Software Development Engineers to enhance the EC2 Windows offerings. The role involves developing large-scale platforms, improving CI/CD processes, and collaborating with teams to deliver high-performance computing solutions on the cloud.
Agentic AIConsultingDevOpsInformation TechnologySoftwareWeb Development
Responsibilities
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
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
Qualification
Required
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
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
Benefits
Medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing.
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