2 days ago
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture decisions for fairness algorithms and resource allocation systems within the Nitro hypervisor.
- Mentor junior engineers in low-level C/Rust programming and embedded development practices.
- Conduct design and code reviews for performance-critical fairness mechanisms.
- Implement resource-isolation and scheduling policies in embedded Nitro environments.
- Analyze workload patterns to identify fairness violations and noisy-neighbor scenarios.
- Design hardware-aware fairness algorithms using CPU cache locality, memory bandwidth, and network resources.
- Collaborate with hardware teams to optimize packet-pipeline software and hardware offloads.
- Develop real-time fairness monitoring and enforcement systems operating at microsecond latencies.
- Implement dynamic resource allocation policies that adapt to changing workloads.
- Design telemetry and observability systems to measure and validate fairness across multi-tenant environments.
- Communicate technical designs and fairness requirements to senior management and product teams.
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
- Experience with embedded development in C/C++.
- Preferred: 3+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Preferred: 2+ years of embedded firmware development experience.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
- Basic Life and AD&D insurance, supplemental life plan options, an Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, and a medical advice line.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Compensation may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
- The position is located in 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.