SDE II: Build Ultra-Low-Latency EC2 Networking

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle is seeking a senior software engineer to design and implement data plane networking for EC2 instances on Nitro hardware. You will work on low-level systems in C and Rust in a real-time embedded environment.

Join a team delivering VPC connectivity, security policy enforcement, and scalable networking at cloud scale, collaborating with hardware, control plane, and ML platforms to push performance and reliability for AWS customers.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, development, and delivery of data plane networking features for EC2 instances running on custom Nitro hardware
• Drive operational excellence for network virtualization systems serving millions of AWS customers worldwide
• Ensure the reliability, performance, and security of VPC connectivity and policy enforcement at scale
• Lead technical investigations into complex production issues across distributed embedded systems, delivering root cause analysis and long-term fixes
• Contribute to the technical roadmap for EC2 Instance Networking, identifying opportunities to improve performance, scalability, and customer experience
• Partner with cross-functional teams — including hardware, control plane, and ML platform teams — to define and deliver end-to-end solutions
• Raise the bar on engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, and operational best practices

Skills

C/C++

Rust

Linux development

Networking

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

Linux OS

Embedded development

TCP/IP

Networking protocols

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle is seeking a senior software engineer to design and implement data plane networking for EC2 instances on Nitro hardware. You will work on low-level systems in C and Rust in a real-time embedded environment.

Join a team delivering VPC connectivity, security policy enforcement, and scalable networking at cloud scale, collaborating with hardware, control plane, and ML platforms to push performance and reliability for AWS customers.