3 days ago
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain Rust-based Bottlerocket OS components, including system services, API servers, and update infrastructure.
- Own features from design through production and deliver solutions to ambiguous systems problems with high autonomy.
- Contribute to open-source code on GitHub through public code reviews and community engagement.
- Investigate issues spanning the Linux kernel, userspace, container runtimes, and EKS and ECS integrations.
- Build and improve release tooling, automated testing frameworks, and delivery pipelines for safe OS releases.
- Harden security defaults and implement operating-system protections.
- Collaborate with EKS, ECS, and security teams on container host integrations and requirements.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback, and technical guidance.
- Participate in on-call rotations and operational practices supporting production container infrastructure.
- Write technical designs, contribute to roadmap planning, and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- At least 1 year of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
- At least 1 year of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- At least 1 year of object-oriented design experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
- Preferred: at least 3 years of full software development life-cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee assistance program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the Amazon package.
- The base salary range is $143,700.00–$194,400.00 USD annually for Seattle, Washington.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.