Senior Software Engineer, EC2 Nitro Storage – Lead at Scale

Amazon.com Services LLC

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 193,000 - 262,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the EC2 Nitro team to build hardware-accelerated software for EC2 local storage. Role covers full stack responsibilities from hardware optimization to framework development in a Linux environment.

Ideal candidates bring strong CS fundamentals, 5+ years in professional software development, and prior leadership or mentoring experience. The team emphasizes mentorship, code reviews, and growth opportunities.

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 (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

Build virtualized, hardware-accelerated solutions for EC2 disk instances at global scale.
Work across the full technology stack from low-level hardware optimization to high-level frameworks.
Contribute to product strategy and drive performance optimization at massive scale.