Amazon
Senior Software Development Engineer, EC2 Nitro
$193K–$262K
SANTA CLARA, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Location
- SANTA CLARA, CA
Santa Clara, CA - Experience
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development; 5+ years programming with at least one software programming language; 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems; experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Build virtualized, hardware-accelerated local storage solutions for EC2 disk instances, optimizing performance at global scale.
What you'll do
- Develop solutions for high-performance read/write access to large local datasets.
- Work across the technology stack, from low-level hardware optimization to high-level frameworks.
- Contribute to the infrastructure supporting cloud computing and AI/ML workloads.
What they ask for
- Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and embedded concepts.
- Expertise in C, C++, Java, Rust, or similar development in a Linux environment.
- Experience with Linux package management, version control systems, automated build processes, and software unit testing.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
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
193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, Java, Rust, Linux, Intel, AMD, Amazon's Graviton
AI focus
The role supports infrastructure for AI/ML workloads, including workloads such as analytics, search, and data warehousing; no direct AI development is specified.
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