Senior SDE, EC2 Instance Networking — Low Latency

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle, WA, seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer for EC2 Instance Networking to design and build the software‑defined networking stack used by VPCs and secure workloads at scale.

You will write low‑level systems code in C and Rust, work with custom hardware, and impact customers running workloads across AWS. The role emphasizes cross‑team collaboration, real‑time constraints, and a path from design to production.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 7+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor junior engineers on impactful and challenging projects.
• 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

C

Rust

Mentorship/leadership

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Linux

Embedded hardware

Job description

Amazon in Seattle, WA, seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer for EC2 Instance Networking to design and build the software‑defined networking stack used by VPCs and secure workloads at scale.

You will write low‑level systems code in C and Rust, work with custom hardware, and impact customers running workloads across AWS. The role emphasizes cross‑team collaboration, real‑time constraints, and a path from design to production.