Amazon
Senior Kernel/Hypervisor Engineer, EC2 Core Compute
$193K–$262K
SANTA CLARA, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- SANTA CLARA, CA
Santa Clara, CA - Experience
- 5+ years in each of the three stated experience areas; experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead is also required.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Develop and operate the EC2 Nitro Hypervisor and virtualization software, improve EC2 instance platforms, and help engineer new EC2 instance families.
What you'll do
- Own software development lifecycle work across the virtualization stack, including design, testing, deployment, and infrastructure automation.
- Improve hypervisor and instance-platform quality and contribute to the team’s technical roadmap.
- Collaborate with hardware, software, and firmware teams and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming in at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
USD 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
EC2 Nitro Hypervisor
AI focus
Openness to using AI tools and technologies to improve productivity and technical problem-solving.
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