Senior Software Development Engineer, EC2 Nitro

Job description

Join the AWS EC2 Nitro team building the foundation of cloud computing at unprecedented scale. EC2 Nitro powers the world's largest and fastest-growing compute cloud through ground-up virtualization design built on fully custom hardware, firmware, and applications. Our platform supports Intel, AMD, and Amazon's Graviton processors while setting industry standards for security and performance. The EC2 Nitro local storage team is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer to build virtualized, hardware-accelerated solutions for EC2 disk instances at global scale. Our platforms support workloads requiring high-performance read/write access to massive local datasets, including relational and NoSQL databases, analytics engines, search platforms, and data warehousing systems that power state-of-the-art AI/ML infrastructure. This role offers unique opportunities to work across the full technology stack—from low-level hardware optimization to high-level frameworks. If you are passionate about solving complex performance optimization problems at massive scale while directly influencing product strategy, this position provides the perfect opportunity to make significant impact on the infrastructure powering modern cloud computing and AI/ML workloads. Key job responsibilities The ideal candidate is expected to have a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and embedded concepts and expertise in C, C++, Java, Rust or similar development in a Linux environment. Experience…