Software Development Engineer, Bottlerocket
Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.•4h ago
United StatesOnsiteFull-time
H-1B verified · 2310 LCAs
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Software EngineerSoftware Engineer IiSenior Software Engineer
- As a Software Development Engineer on the Bottlerocket team, you will design, build
- maintain components of Bottlerocket — AWS's open-source, security-first container OS trusted by thousands of customers to run production workloads at massive scale. As an SDE2, you'll write Rust and Go in the open on GitHub, shipping systems software that runs on millions of hosts worldwide — spanning OS services, container runtime integrations, update mechanisms
- orchestrator support for EKS and ECS. You'll solve hard problems in Linux internals, security hardening
- performance at unprecedented container density
- building the CI/CD and release tooling that powers safe, rapid OS delivery. This is a uniquely open team within AWS: real open-source, real community
- real low-level engineering on infrastructure customers trust to run their most important workloads. Key job responsibilities - Design, implement
- maintain Rust-based OS components including system services, API servers
- update infrastructure for Bottlerocket - Own features end-to-end from design through production, operating with high autonomy and delivering results on ambiguous problems - Contribute to and maintain open-source code on GitHub, participating in public code reviews and community engagement - Investigate and resolve complex systems issues spanning kernel, userspace, container runtimes
- orchestrator integrations (EKS, ECS) - Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, release tooling
- automated testing frameworks that ensure safe, rapid OS delivery - Harden security defaults and implement OS-level protections that reduce customer operational burden without sacrificing flexibility - Partner cross-functionally with EKS, ECS
- security teams to design integrations and align on container host requirements - Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback
- technical guidance, raising the quality bar across the team - Participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence practices supporting production container infrastructure at scale - Write technical design documents, contribute to roadmap planning
- communicate trade-offs clearly to stakeholders
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience - 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience - 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience - 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems
- services using: C#, C++, Java
- Perl experience - 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience - Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics
- a related field - Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing
- operations experience - Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability
- other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner. The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications
- location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off
- parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits . USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
Required skills
GoRustJavaAWSLinuxCI/CDSecurity