System Development Engineer (m/f)

The Development Center Dresden

In 2013 Amazon expanded to Dresden with it being the home-base of the Amazon Development Center team. The Kernel and Operating System team creates the heart of EC2, the actual virtual compute instance definitions and Amazon Linux, the operating system for our cloud. Being part of Amazon means constantly driving innovation and working on complex technical challenges every day.

Check out this video to learn more about the office, the work and the beautiful city of Dresden: https://youtu.be/NyJQL6keFBA


Position

Amazon is looking for an experienced Information System Developer for a Kernel and Operating System team. As part of the team, you will be given the chance to have a significant impact on our release management, systems, our business and most importantly our customers.

If you are passionate about automation, have deep technical knowledge of systems integration and want to build solutions to challenging problems that directly affect millions of people: there may be no better place than Amazon for you to impact the world!

You will be responsible for the lowest layer of the Amazon Web Services software stack, managing the Linux Kernel and Hypervisor releases for AWS.

You will be working with proprietary Amazon systems as well as creating new ones - untying knots of AWS scale and complexity.

• BS in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience working on the complex, scalable information systems design and development
• Experience in writing custom software applications and systems integration
• Strong programming and scripting skills
  

• Linux system troubleshooting
• Python and C programming skills
• Experience in automation of software life cycle processes
  

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