🚀 Principal Engineer, EC2

Job ID: | Amazon Web Services Development Center Germany GmbH

As a Principal Engineer on EC2 in the Accelerated Nitro team, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the core infrastructure powering Amazon Web Services. You will be at the forefront of developing the next generation of EC2 instance families, driving innovations in virtualization, hardware acceleration, and cloud computing.

The EC2 Accelerated Nitro team focuses on building highly efficient and secure hypervisors, as well as integrating advanced hardware accelerators like GPUs and FPGAs into the EC2 instance families. This enables us to deliver near bare-metal performance and support a wide range of workloads, from machine learning and high-performance computing to graphics processing.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the Development of Core EC2 Capabilities: Spearhead the design and architecture of new EC2 instance features, from CPU scheduling and memory management to device emulation and PCIe subsystem integration.
• Advance Virtualization Security: Drive security-focused initiatives that enhance the integrity and resilience of our virtualization platform, ensuring the highest standards of data protection for our customers.
• Mentor and Grow Engineering Talent: Leverage your deep technical expertise to develop other engineers, providing architecture reviews, design proposals, and hands-on coding support to elevate the skills of the broader team.
• Influence the Future of Cloud Computing: Contribute your thinking to shape the technological direction of EC2 instances and features, advocating for innovative solutions that deliver exceptional performance and value to our customers.

This role is exclusively based in our Berlin, Germany office. The successful candidate must be willing and able to be physically present in the Berlin office every day to collaborate closely with the cross-functional engineering and product teams driving the development of our next-generation EC2 instance families.

To excel in this role, you will need a proven track record as a solid technical Principal Engineer, with expertise in low-level system software, hardware acceleration, and cloud infrastructure. You should also possess strong leadership abilities, the capacity to thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, and a passion for mentoring and developing engineering talent.

Basic Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience in networking, multi-threaded applications, interprocess communication, and complex software development
• Experience optimizing for short term execution while planning for long term technical capabilities
• Experience developing an operating system kernel or production hypervisor
• Proficiency in at least one CPU architecture, such as x86 or ARM
• Experience growing other engineers and working in diverse teams
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience influencing groups outside their own VP from architecture perspective
• Experience creating architectural vision
• Experience enhancing the security posture of a kernel or hypervisor
• Experience resolving complex issues in the interactions between software and hardware, including working with PCIe internals and the interactions between software and hardware
• Proficient in both x86 and ARM CPU architectures.

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