Amazon
Software Dev Engineer, EC2 Nitro
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted May 26, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship system design or architecture experience. Preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Build and operate the EC2 Nitro Dataplane packet-processing software that provides networking features for EC2 VPC instances.
What you'll do
- Design, review, and implement software, including architecture decisions and code reviews.
- Mentor junior engineers and support day-to-day development practices.
- Gather requirements and communicate software features, technical designs, and strategy to users, technical teams, and senior management.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; algorithm and data-structure proficiency, TCP/IP knowledge, or kernel/embedded development are also preferred.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, Rust, Linux kernel, TCP/IP, Ruby, Python, Perl
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