Amazon
Senior Software Development Engineer, EC2 Hyperplane
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for software development, programming, and design or architecture leadership; experience as a mentor, tech lead or engineering team lead is also required.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Designs and builds AWS network virtualization systems, leads architecture and a core-system rewrite, and mentors engineers.
What you'll do
- Build scalable, low-latency distributed systems for network virtualization infrastructure.
- Lead technical design and architecture decisions, including a greenfield rewrite of a core system.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate across teams to deliver customer-facing improvements.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming 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 leading an engineering team.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
generative AI
AI focus
Apply generative AI in a greenfield rewrite to improve reliability, performance, and developer productivity; the team is also expanding into generative AI.
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