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# Kernel/OS Engineer, EC2 Nitro Instance Lifecycle Management

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $143,700.0 - $194,400.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** C (Programming Language), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Microarchitecture, Hyper-V, Kernel-Based Virtual Machine, Linux Kernel, Software Engineering
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/da12d77e-5c71-4eaf-963c-d2f705dab37b/kernelos-engineer-ec-nitro-instance-lifecycle-management

## About the Role

nBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience\n
\n- Professional experience working on the Linux Kernel\n
\n- Professional experience in C programming\n
\n- Proficient in at least one CPU architecture such as x86 or ARM\n
\n- Understanding of operating system internals\n
\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Extensive professional experience working on the Linux Kernel\n
\n- Extensive professional experience in C programming\n
\n- Professional experience working on a hypervisor, such as kvm, xen or hyper-v\n
\n- Solid understanding of performance-critical areas of the Linux Kernel\n