Senior Systems Engineer, High-Performance EC2 Networking

Amazon; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a senior systems engineer to help shape the future of virtualized networking across EC2/SDN platforms. You will lead a small team, contribute hands‑on to design and code, and drive performance optimizations for millions of packets per second on real hardware.

The role requires strong C/C++ skills, embedded/driver experience, and leadership capabilities to guide architecture decisions and mentor engineers across a broad, globally distributed fleet.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship software development experience.
• Experience writing low level drivers or embedded development in C/C++.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineer on a small team and mentor junior engineers.
• Hands‑on development and architecture decisions with the engineering team.
• Stay updated with new technologies and drive adoption with management and team.
• Communicate requirements, designs, and product strategy to users, teams and senior management.

Skills

C/C++ programming

Low‑level driver development

Embedded systems

Leadership/mentoring

System design/architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a senior systems engineer to help shape the future of virtualized networking across EC2/SDN platforms. You will lead a small team, contribute hands‑on to design and code, and drive performance optimizations for millions of packets per second on real hardware.

The role requires strong C/C++ skills, embedded/driver experience, and leadership capabilities to guide architecture decisions and mentor engineers across a broad, globally distributed fleet.