Lead Software Engineer - SDN & EC2 Nitro

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 143,700 - 194,400; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's EC2 Nitro Dataplane team is hiring in Seattle to shape the future of virtualized networking for EC2 VPCs. You will lead a small engineering team, mentor engineers, and drive architecture decisions while collaborating across product and management to define requirements and features.

You will work hands-on with systems design, coding reviews, and platform improvements, with responsibilities spanning Linux kernel, TCP/IP, scripting in Ruby/Python/Rust, and SDN-scale networking challenges

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience for new and existing systems.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Proficiency in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures.
• In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP.
• Kernel or embedded development, particularly Linux kernel.
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Ruby, Python or Rust.
• Strong knowledge of core computer science fundamentals, object-oriented design, and complexity analysis.
• Experience working with modern programming languages such as C, C++, Rust, Python or Perl.
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through its final launch.
• Meets or exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles and functional/technical depth requirements for this role.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small engineering team, mentor junior engineers, and enforce sound development practices.
• Be highly hands-on; collaborate with engineering to manage day-to-day development activities, leading architecture decisions, design reviews, code reviews and implementation.
• Maintain current technical knowledge, stay alert for new technologies, and work with management and the development team to bring those technologies to life.
• Communicate with users, other technical teams, and senior management to gather requirements, describe product features, and shape product strategy.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Architecture design

Multiple languages

Algorithms & data structures

TCP/IP

Linux kernel

Scripting (Ruby Python Rust)

C/C++/Rust/Python/Perl

Project scoping & launch

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Amazon's EC2 Nitro Dataplane team is hiring in Seattle to shape the future of virtualized networking for EC2 VPCs. You will lead a small engineering team, mentor engineers, and drive architecture decisions while collaborating across product and management to define requirements and features.

You will work hands-on with systems design, coding reviews, and platform improvements, with responsibilities spanning Linux kernel, TCP/IP, scripting in Ruby/Python/Rust, and SDN-scale networking challenges