Amazon
Senior Software Engineer, EC2 Nitro
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 10, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in each of the three areas specified in the basic qualifications; the posting does not state alternatives.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Build and maintain the EC2 Nitro dataplane packet pipeline, delivering high-performance software-defined networking features for EC2 VPC instances.
What you'll do
- Lead hands-on architecture, design, code reviews, and implementation on a small engineering team; mentor junior engineers.
- Manage day-to-day development and maintain technical knowledge while evaluating and bringing in new technologies.
- Gather requirements and communicate software features, technical designs, and product strategy to users, technical teams, and senior management.
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 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
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, Rust, EC2, AWS Lambda
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