Amazon
SDE II, EC2 Instance Networking, EC2 Nitro
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience; 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience; and 1+ years of qualifying application development experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate EC2 data-plane networking and virtualization software on custom hardware, supporting VPC connectivity, security, and high-performance cloud workloads.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, deploy, and operate data-plane networking software on custom hardware.
- Build and improve network virtualization for VPC connectivity, security policy enforcement, and performance isolation.
- Investigate production issues in distributed embedded systems and drive root-cause analysis and permanent fixes.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 1+ years of experience developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 4+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C, Rust, C#, C++, Java, Perl
AI focus
Build networking primitives that support large-scale machine learning workloads, including high-performance interfaces, low-latency data-plane protocols, and scalable network virtualization.
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