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# Manager, Software Development, AWS EC2 Nitro Operating System

US, CA, Santa Clara Manager or lead Software Engineering 

Listed on Amazon’s official careers site. Posted October 9, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there.
[Apply on Amazon’s careers site →](https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10574717/manager-software-development-aws-ec2-nitro-operating-system)

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## Job description

AWS EC2 Nitro powers the world's largest, fastest-growing, and most feature-rich compute cloud. Built from the ground up for virtualization at global scale, Nitro is a fully custom stack of hardware, firmware, and software that enables EC2 to support Intel, AMD, and AWS's own Graviton processors - while setting industry benchmarks for security and performance. With our Nitro System, we break apart traditional hypervisor functions like CPU virtualization, storage, and networking, and offload them to dedicated hardware and software.

This enables us to deliver practically all of the resources of a server to customer instances, innovate faster, increase security, deliver new instance types, and reduce customer cost.

The Nitro Linux team owns the secure, embedded Linux environment at the heart of this system. We build and maintain the operating system that integrates with the Nitro control plane and powers live updates, metrics collection, core dump handling, and system health monitoring across AWS's global infrastructure. Linux, ash, C, lua, Rust - join us for embedded software systems at cloud scale!

### Key job responsibilities

- Lead and mentor a team of software engineers on Linux kernel development for EC2 Nitro platforms

- Drive technical strategy and roadmap for kernel development initiatives

- Collaborate with hardware, firmware, software, and program teams to define requirements and priorities

- Identify and remove blockers to enable team productivity and technical excellence

- Support team members in debugging complex, system-level issues and knowledge sharing

- Represent the team in cross-functional planning and stakeholder communications

## At a glance
- Posted by the employer: Oct 9, 2026
- First seen by OpenNash: Oct 11, 2026
- Last checked: Oct 18, 2026
- Listed for: 9 days
- Location: US, CA, Santa Clara[Apply on Amazon’s careers site →](https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10574717/manager-software-development-aws-ec2-nitro-operating-system)

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