Amazon
Kernel/OS Engineer, AWS EC2 Nitro Operating System
$144K–$224K
Santa Clara, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Apr 14, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience. Preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Develop and maintain the embedded Linux operating system for AWS EC2 Nitro, including kernel work, hardware bring-up, debugging, and performance optimization.
What you'll do
- Design and implement Linux kernel changes; develop for next-generation EC2 compute platforms and bring up Linux on new hardware and custom silicon.
- Debug system-level issues, profile and optimize performance, and build tooling for characterization, qualification, and deployment.
- Deliver and support production-quality software while collaborating with hardware, firmware, systems, and application teams.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, builds, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
USD 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 annually (base salary); USD 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Linux, ash, C, lua, Rust
AI focus
Openness to using AI tools and technologies to improve productivity and technical problem-solving.
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