Senior Cloud Networking Engineer – Hyperplane Lead

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

The Hyperplane team at Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Dev Engineer to build a scalable NFV platform powering EC2 network virtualization.

You will own design decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across security, product, and network teams to deliver high‑performance services at cloud scale. You will write robust code in C++, Rust, or Java, drive operational excellence, and shape the long‑term technical roadmap while leading critical components of the networking

Qualifications

• 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 of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable distributed systems powering AWS EC2 network virtualization.
• Lead technical design and architecture decisions for Hyperplane components (packet processing, policy enforcement, traffic management).
• Mentor junior engineers through reviews and guidance, raising the engineering bar.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver customer‑facing features and improvements.
• Optimize system performance through profiling and benchmarking to meet latency/throughput targets.
• Participate in on‑call rotations and drive operational excellence for reliability.
• Contribute to long‑term technical strategy and roadmap planning.
• Write high‑quality, maintainable code in C++, Rust, or Java with proper testing/docs/deploy.

Skills

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Technical leadership

C++

Rust

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

The Hyperplane team at Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Dev Engineer to build a scalable NFV platform powering EC2 network virtualization.

You will own design decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across security, product, and network teams to deliver high‑performance services at cloud scale. You will write robust code in C++, Rust, or Java, drive operational excellence, and shape the long‑term technical roadmap while leading critical components of the networking