Amazon
Software Development Engineer, EC2 Instance Networking
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ years of related occupational experience; 1+ years using a listed language for the specified software systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate data-plane networking software and network virtualization systems for EC2, running on custom hardware at cloud scale.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, deploy, and operate data-plane networking software on custom hardware.
- Build and improve systems for VPC connectivity, security policy enforcement, and performance isolation.
- Resolve production issues across distributed embedded systems and collaborate with hardware, control-plane, and ML teams.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems.
- 1+ years of experience developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 4+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Knowledge of system performance, memory management, and parallel computing; experience in networking, large-scale distributed systems, Linux, or Networking protocols.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C, Rust, C#, C++, Java, Perl, Linux
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.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative