Drimva

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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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)