Amazon
Senior Software Development Engineer, EC2 Instance Networking
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years for each of the stated professional development, programming, and system design/architecture qualifications; preferred: 8+ years of full software development lifecycle experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Build and operate EC2 instance networking software on custom hardware, including data-plane networking, network virtualization, and availability mechanisms for cloud workloads.
What you'll do
- Lead and mentor engineers; design and implement data-plane software across its lifecycle.
- Build network virtualization systems for VPC connectivity, security enforcement, and performance isolation.
- Resolve production issues and collaborate across hardware, control plane, and ML platform teams.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 7+ years programming experience with at least one programming language.
- 7+ 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
- 8+ years of full software development lifecycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C, Rust
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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