Amazon
Software Development Engineer, EC2 Nitro, EC2 Local Instance Store
$165K–$224K
SANTA CLARA, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Location
- SANTA CLARA, CA
Santa Clara, CA - Experience
- 5+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience; preferred: 3+ years of embedded firmware development experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Develop and operate features for the EC2 Instance Storage data plane, building and improving large-scale local storage systems for EC2 storage-optimized instances.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and operate a massive-scale storage system.
- Develop Instance Storage data-plane features and solve customer problems at scale.
- Support EC2 storage-optimized instances, emphasizing performance, availability, scalability, and data durability.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of embedded firmware development experience.
- Experience with server, storage, networking, or large-scale distributed systems; device drivers, firmware management, and NVMe are also noted as a plus.
Pay
USD 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
NVMe, Intel, AMD, Amazon's Graviton
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