Kernel / Hypervisor Engineer

Who you are

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
• Experience using Linux, demonstrating proficiency with associated tools or languages
• Interest, knowledge, and experience in the areas low-level software engineering and/or systems programming
• Passionate about working in the open source community
• Experience in Linux OS and network troubleshooting, or experience in Linux and Networking protocols
• Experience in the areas of low-level software engineering and/or systems programming, for example with Linux, C, C++, or Rust

What the job involves

• Join us at AWS Lambda in building global scale compute platforms. We focus on serverless & container virtualization technologies, on trusted compute, and on server fleet tooling. We invent, build, and own building blocks that are the foundation of the cloud. This is an exciting opportunity for you to create new products and services of an innovative team that feels like a start-up!
• We are looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, curious, empathic, motivated, reliable, with a good sense of ownership, and a drive to invent
• In this role, you will work on Firecracker, an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services that provide serverless operational models
• Firecracker is deployed globally as part of AWS Lambda, Aurora D-SQL, and other AWS services. Firecracker is also integrated by 10+ teams beyond AWS as part of their platforms. Firecracker has an ambitious multi-year roadmap of tackling impactful and interesting opportunities in the quickly expanding ephemeral compute space - come help us make history!
• Your main goal will be to create long-term customer value. You will: work to understand our customers' needs and engineer new features to meet them; own and automate operations; contribute new ideas and methods to continuously improve quality and development efficiency; innovate in the area of ephemeral compute platforms; and be a maintainer of the Firecracker open source project
• This position also involves on-call responsibilities, which is typically done once every 8 weeks. We strive to keep this down and ensure our systems are fault tolerant. Our team values work-life balance and we respect each others time