Senior Software Engineer, Bottlerocket

Job summary

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.

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Qualifications

• 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.
• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• PREFERRED
• Knowledge of system performance, memory management, and parallel computing principles
• Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
• Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
• If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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

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