Software Development Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own the Graviton bare-metal virtualization layer, including KVM/QEMU VM management, subsystem lifecycle, health monitoring, and fault recovery.
• Develop embedded software, device drivers, system applications, and microcontroller or emulated peripheral integrations using Rust, C, C++, Python, Bash, or other modern languages.
• Build and maintain AMI pipelines and provisioning scripts for deploying satellite software, firmware, certificates, and dependencies onto emulated LRUs.
• Extend the Graviton plugin framework for satellites, gateways, customer terminals, and other virtual entity types.
• Implement VM networking, WireGuard tunnels, TT&C link emulation, boot-time optimization, provisioning latency improvements, and fidelity features such as HSM, EFUSE, CAN bus, and error-injection emulation.
• Debug host and guest operating system issues and support board bring-up and integration testing with software and hardware teams.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with Bash or shell automation and Perl or Python programming.
• Experience with Linux systems programming using C, Rust, Python, or Bash.
• Experience with virtualization or emulation such as KVM, QEMU, or Docker.
• Familiarity with embedded Linux boot processes, systemd, device drivers, or Yocto/Buildroot.
• Preferred experience includes ARM64 or Graviton, QEMU device emulation, QMP, device drivers, microcontrollers, network virtualization, satellite or hardware test environments, EC2 bare-metal, SSM, AMI/image-building pipelines, certificate provisioning, secure boot, HSM interfaces, Python packaging, container image management, and Rust systems programming.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted refugee or asylee due to export-control requirements.

Benefits

• Amazon offers health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
• Benefits include an employee assistance program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
• The package may also include sign-on payments and restricted stock units; final compensation depends on experience, qualifications, and location.