
We value work-life balance and believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. These range from groups such as the Black Employee Network, Latinos at Amazon, Indigenous at Amazon, Families at Amazon, Amazon Women and Engineering, LGBTQ+, Warriors at Amazon (Military), Amazon People With Disabilities, and more. Team members are active in Amazon’s 10+ affinity groups, sometimes known as employee resource groups, which bring employees together across businesses and locations around the world. We are intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Our team is diverse! We drive towards an inclusive culture and work environment. Senior Software Development Engineers work closely with EC2 Principal Engineers and other technical leaders to define technical direction, and then follow through with detailed analysis, designs, and high quality code. Work is typically done in C/C++ or Rust with supporting script and tests in Python and Lua.


We need engineers with the dive-deep and ownership to work across domains (such as PC peripheral firmware or Linux Kernel internals) to deliver features and new instance types for our customers. It interfaces directly with system BIOS for bare-metal instances and drives critical system interactions within the Nitro Hypervisor and across EC2 control-plane services. It provides legacy device emulation, DNS and Instance Meta-data Service (IMDS) to the guest instance.

The Nitro Instance Services team is a critical middle layer that is the cornerstone of the Nitro design.

The Nitro Team is looking for engineers with systems knowledge and experience in area such as Linux OS boot sequencing, Kernel, Hypervisor (Xen or KVM), peripheral device development (PCIe or NVMe) and low-level PC systems such as BIOS. Nitro has enabled EC2 to support Intel, AMD and Amazon’s custom silicon - Graviton2 - while raising the industry bar for security and performance across our product line. Nitro is AWS’s ground-up design for virtualization at global scale built on a fully custom stack of hardware, firmware and applications. EC2 Nitro drives the planet’s largest, fastest growing and most feature-rich compute cloud.
