Amazon
Senior Software Dev Engineer, EC2 Hyperplane
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in each of the three stated experience areas; leadership experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Leads the design, development, and operation of scalable distributed systems for EC2’s network virtualization platform, with a focus on performance, reliability, and customer-facing infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain distributed systems for EC2 network virtualization, including packet processing, policy enforcement, and traffic management.
- Lead technical architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to deliver platform improvements.
- Optimize performance, participate in on-call operations, troubleshoot production issues, and improve reliability.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C++, Rust, Java
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