Amazon
Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS EC2 Nitro Team
$193K–$262K
SANTA CLARA, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 2, 2026
- Location
- SANTA CLARA, CA
Santa Clara, CA - Experience
- 5+ years in each of the listed professional software development, programming, and system design or architecture areas; an additional 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience is preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Develops software for new EC2 machine learning platforms and next-generation supercomputers, collaborating across hardware, firmware, systems, and application software teams.
What you'll do
- Drive development of new EC2 machine learning platforms.
- Work across the technology stack on performance optimization for large-scale infrastructure.
- Collaborate with technical teams developing hardware, firmware, systems, and application software.
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, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C/C++, Rust, Linux
AI focus
Develops EC2 machine learning platforms and supercomputers for high-performance AI/ML training and inference workloads.
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