Software Development Engineer, Firecracker
amazonDublin (OH)
Software Development Engineer, Firecracker
Posted today
amazonDublin (OH)
SENIORITY
Lead
About the role
Overview:
In this role, you will contribute to Firecracker, an open-source virtualization project underpinning AWS Lambda and other services. You will help shape features, automate operations, and maintain the project to deliver long-term customer value. The position emphasizes ownership, experimentation, and collaboration in a startup-like environment within a large, security-conscious organization. You will also handle on-call responsibilities and drive improvements across the ephemeral compute platform. Compensation / Benefits work-life balance mentorship and trainings inclusive culture
Responsibilities:
Understand customer needs and engineer new features Own and automate operations for Firecracker Contribute ideas to improve quality and development efficiency Innovate in the area of ephemeral compute platforms Maintain the Firecracker open source project Handle on-call duties to keep systems fault-tolerant
Key requirements:
Experience (non-internship) in professional software development Interest, knowledge, and experience in low-level software engineering and/or systems programming Passionate about working in the open source community Preferred: experience with Linux, C, C++, or Rust enthusiastic curious empathic low-level software engineering systems programming Linux
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