- 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
- Develop solutions for your technical goals
- Review code from your peers and discuss your own code
- Contribute to and review design documents
- Grab lunch outside the office or meet up on the roof terrace
- Meet with peers from your team and the wider org to exchange ideas
- Over time, start mentoring other and interviewing new colleagues
- Experience (noninternship) in professional software development
- Programming experience in C and at least one scripting language like Ruby, Python or Bash
- 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
Software Development Engineer, Kernel/Hypervisor Security, EC2 KaOS - Dresden, Deutschland - Amazon Web Services Development Center Germany GmbH - R28
Beschreibung
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
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS's services and features apart in the industry.
As a member of the UC organization, you'll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS.
Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Key job responsibilitiesOur 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 outer out.The Amazon Development Center in Dresden, Germany, is building the foundation of the Amazon EC2 virtualization platforms.
The Dresden based teams also own the development and support of the Linux operating system kernel and the supporting user space components running on almost every Amazon Server worldwide.
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