Drimva

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.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)