Software Development Engineer, Kernel/Hypervisor Security, EC2 KaOS

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Software Development Engineer, Kernel/Hypervisor Security, EC2 KaOS

Sector: Engineering
Role: Professional
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for an Engineer to join our team working on the code security of Hypervisors and Linux kernels used across EC2.

You will take ownership of security tooling in support of our security mission, and work on low level security issues in operating system kernels and hypervisors that form our virtualization stack.

You will develop and use scalable tooling for security testing, fuzzing, and continually delivering secure kernels, hypervisors, and operating system components. Much code targets are implemented in C and similar low level languages, most of our tooling in Python running on GNU/Linux.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop code analysis tools, security scanners, and fuzzing tools
- Maintain and improve security tooling
- Help evaluate security problems in Kernels and Hypervisors, and related components
- Reproduce security issues, propose security mitigations, and contribute to their deployment
- Continuous process improvements

A day in the life
- Develop solutions for your technical goals
- Review code from your peers and discuss your own code
- Contribute to and review design documents
- Meet with peers from your team and the wider org to exchange ideas
- Over time, start mentoring others and interviewing new colleagues

About the team
Our diverse team consists of software engineers, security engineers and systems development engineers. While we come from different backgrounds we share a passion for improving security, in mission to make EC2 and Amazon Linux more secure. We value knowledge sharing, Open Source Software, automation, and helping each other out.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Programming experience in C and at least one scripting language like Ruby, Python or Bash

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Affinity or experience in static code analysis, fuzzing or security testing
- Exposure to virtualization technologies
- Knowledge in Linux kernels, Linux distributions, or similar operating environments

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.