Amazon
Software Development Engineer, EC2 Nitro, EC2 Local Instance Store
$165K–$224K
Santa Clara, CA · Full-time · Posted May 13, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years for the experience areas listed in the basic qualifications.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate systems that live-migrate running EC2 virtual instances across physical infrastructure, including tools for testing, performance measurement, and service observability.
What you'll do
- Develop and operate large-scale live migration systems for EC2 storage instances.
- Lead small project teams and deliver features with minimal direct oversight.
- Automate testing, measure live migration performance, and build observability for service operations.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 3+ years of design or architecture experience for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 3+ years designing and 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
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
USD 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, Rust, Linux, C#, Java, Perl
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