Software Development Engineer, EC2 Instance Networking

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented Software Development Engineer to join their dynamic EC2 Instance Networking team. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology, optimizing performance for one of the largest public clouds in the world. As part of a small, agile team, you will mentor junior engineers, lead architectural decisions, and engage in hands-on coding. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features that enhance customer experience. If you're passionate about systems software engineering and eager to drive innovation, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience required.
• Experience in design or architecture of systems is essential.

Responsibilities

• Mentor junior engineers and ensure best development practices.
• Lead architecture decisions and participate in code reviews.

Skills

C/C++ programming

Rust programming

Software design patterns

TCP/IP knowledge

Linux operating system

Algorithm design

Data structures

Mentoring junior engineers

Scripting (Ruby/Python/Rust)

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Source control management

Build processes

Job description

Software Development Engineer, EC2 Instance Networking

Job ID: 2939817 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Do you want to shape the future of virtualized (SDN) networking in one of the world’s biggest public clouds?

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) VPC Dataplane team owns the packet pipeline that runs right beneath all our customer's EC2 VPC instances, adding features like firewalls (security groups), routing, billing and monitoring as we touch every single packet on every single host across our worldwide fleet in more than 30 regions. Our vision is to combine the performance of bare metal networking while maintaining all the benefits of the cloud, including delivering features not possible on bare metal leading to true Software Defined Networking (SDN).

We continue to grow, and are looking for kernel/embedded C programmers who can deliver ultra-high performance for our EC2 customers - our goal is to be processing many millions of packets per second on embedded CPU cores. This requires both being able to implement highly optimized data structures, but also low level tuning to our hardware. If you have good experience in C/C++ or rust, and a passion for systems software engineering such as kernel or embedded software development, then this is a unique opportunity to join us in building the platform which is the basis for all new EC2 VPC features in the years to come.

You can have an immediate impact for all of our customers including internal customers such as AWS Lambda, and external customers that run on Amazon EC2 as we deploy new features and updates regularly and often.
With the extensive network and access to Principal, Sr. Principal and Distinguished Engineers across EC2, AWS and Amazon, there are many stretch opportunities to grow your skills and knowledge.

Key job responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:

1. Being an engineer on a small team, mentoring junior engineers, ensuring the right development practices are followed.
2. Be very hands-on; work with the engineering team to manage the day-to-day development activities by leading architecture decisions, participating in designs, design review, code review, and implementation.
3. Maintain current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, always on a look out for new technologies and work with management and development team in bringing new technologies.
4. Communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Proficiency in design and analysis of algorithms and data structures
- Linux operating system knowledge
- In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP
- Kernel or embedded development, particularly Linux kernel
- Scripting (Ruby/Python/Rust)
- Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
- Knowledge of, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, rust, Python or Perl
- Experience developing complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
- Experiencing mentoring junior software development engineers and driving engineering excellence
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

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