Job Description
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join the Bottlerocket team, where you"ll build and evolve a purpose-built Linux-based operating system for running containers. Bottlerocket is fully open source and powers container workloads across Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, and bare-metal environments at massive scale.
As an Senior SDE on this team, you will own significant components of the OS, from system services and update mechanisms to security hardening and package management. You"ll design solutions that balance reliability, security, and performance for millions of container hosts, while collaborating openly with the broader community. This role combines deep systems programming with high-level architecture decisions, and your work will ship to customers as both open-source contributions and integrated AWS service features.
Key job responsibilities
- Design & build OS components - Develop and maintain core Bottlerocket subsystems (update engine, API server, host-container orchestration, settings management).
- Security-first development - Implement and maintain security features
- Open-source stewardship - Participate in upstream communities, review external contributions, publish RFCs, and maintain public documentation and tooling.
- Cross-team integration - Collaborate with internal and external partner teams to ensure Bottlerocket meets orchestrator requirements and customer needs.
- Operational excellence - Own the build and release pipeline (including Twoliter, the Bottlerocket build system), drive quality through automated testing, and support production rollouts.
- Mentorship & technical leadership - Raise the bar through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring junior engineers on systems programming best practices.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Seattle, WA |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | http://Amazon.com/militaryroles |
About Company
At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
Skills
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Code Reviewsunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- High Level Architecture (HLA)unmatched
- Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Machine Toolunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Open Sourceunmatched
- Operating Systemsunmatched
- Production Supportunmatched
- Sales Pipelineunmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Stewardshipunmatched
- Systems Engineeringunmatched
- Systems Maintenanceunmatched
- Systems/Internals Programmingunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Test Automationunmatched
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