Amazon
Software Dev Engineer, EC2 Nitro
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Apr 14, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Develop and maintain high-performance EC2 Nitro dataplane software that processes network packets and enables VPC features across AWS infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Lead and contribute to architecture, design reviews, code reviews, implementation, and day-to-day development.
- Mentor junior engineers and promote sound development practices.
- Gather and communicate requirements, technical designs, product features, and strategy with 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 in design or architecture of 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; TCP/IP, kernel or embedded development, and algorithm/data-structure expertise 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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