Senior Principal Engineer, EC2 Core Compute

EC2 Core Compute is hiring a Senior Principal Engineer to own the technical direction of the platforms and the virtualization stack behind the EC2 general-purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized and Basic qualifications: 1. Master of Science in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field. 2. Extensive career in systems software or infrastructure engineering as the senior-most technical leader of a multi-team organization, with a demonstrated record of influencing engineers, executives and product managers and of growing engineers at every tenure level. 3. Deep understanding of virtualization: CPU and memory virtualization, IOMMU, device passthrough and emulation, PCIe, and the interaction between hypervisor, firmware and hardware. 4. Deep understanding of virtualization security: isolation boundaries, the attack surface of hypervisor and firmware, and the mitigation of hardware and software vulnerabilities. 5. Expert-level systems programming in production software such as operating system kernels, hypervisors, device drivers or firmware, with the judgment to choose languages and tools for the problem at hand. 6. Experience building, shipping and operating an infrastructure platform end to end, and improving how an organization operates, monitors and automates its services. Preferred: 1. Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field. 2. Experience with the Linux kernel as a contributor or maintainer, or with sustaining a downstream kernel against upstream releases. 3. Experience with KVM, Xen, Hyper-V or another production hypervisor, or with the firmware and platform layers that support one. 4. Experience enabling new silicon with processor vendors: pre-production hardware, errata, microcode and firmware. 5. Experience with confidential computing technologies such as memory encryption, attestation and trusted execution environments. 6. Experience with platform-level performance engineering, including NUMA, cache and memory bandwidth behavior. 7. Proficiency in both x86 and ARM64 architectures. 8. Experience influencing architecture beyond your own VP organization, with a record of technical decisions that held up over multiple years. 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. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice ( https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page ) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates. m/w/d 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.