# Software Development Engineer, Firecracker

Join us at AWS Lambda in building global scale compute platforms. We focus on serverless & container virtualization technologies, on trusted compute, and on server fleet tooling. We invent, build, and own building blocks that are the foundation of the cloud. This is an exciting opportunity for you to create new products and services of an innovative team that feels like a start-up! We are looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, curious, empathic, motivated, reliable, with a good sense of ownership, and a drive to invent. In this role, you will work on Firecracker [1], an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services that provide serverless operational models. Firecracker is deployed globally as part of AWS Lambda [2], Aurora D-SQL, and other AWS Services. Firecracker is also integrated by 10+ teams beyond AWS as part of their platforms [3]. Firecracker has an ambitious multi-year roadmap of tackling impactful and interesting opportunities in the quickly expanding ephemeral compute space - come help us make history! Your main goal will be to create long-term customer value. You

- **Id**: 3874314
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-software-development-engineer-firecracker>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Dublin, Ireland
- **Countries**: IE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-26T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T13:39:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 73
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3850
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Logistics, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 1-10
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4612
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.888
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 28
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **Amazon Aurora** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **Rust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 73

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T15:38:18Z

## Visa

- Country: IE; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Irish employment permits in 12 months: 144; Filings 12m: 144

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.219
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 73
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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