SDE II: EC2 Instance Networking & Low-Latency Systems

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking an SDE II for EC2 Instance Networking to help build the software-defined networking stack powering AWS services.

You will write low-level systems code in C and Rust for real-time embedded hardware and contribute to data plane protocols and scalable virtualization. You will collaborate with teams across hardware, control plane, and ML platforms to deliver end-to-end solutions at scale with sub-second latency, impacting workloads from a single

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience for large-scale systems.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software in C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 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

• Design and implement data plane networking software on custom hardware, working across the full software lifecycle from design through deployment and operations.
• Build and improve network virtualization systems that deliver VPC connectivity, security policy enforcement, and performance isolation for EC2 customers.
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues across distributed embedded systems, driving root cause analysis and permanent fixes.
• Collaborate with partner teams across hardware, control plane, and ML platforms to deliver end-to-end solutions.

Skills

3+ years software development

2+ years design/architecture

1+ years embedded/distributed software

C/C++/Java programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking an SDE II for EC2 Instance Networking to help build the software-defined networking stack powering AWS services.

You will write low-level systems code in C and Rust for real-time embedded hardware and contribute to data plane protocols and scalable virtualization. You will collaborate with teams across hardware, control plane, and ML platforms to deliver end-to-end solutions at scale with sub-second latency, impacting workloads from a single