Amazon
Software Development Engineer, EC2 Nitro High Memory and HPC team
$165K–$224K
SANTA CLARA, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Location
- SANTA CLARA, CA
Santa Clara, CA - Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience; preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Develop purpose-built EC2 Nitro platforms and instance types for high-memory, HPC, and database workloads, working across firmware, Linux Kernel, hypervisor, and EC2 control-plane systems.
What you'll do
- Build features and new instance types for high-memory and high-performance computing workloads.
- Work across system BIOS, Nitro Hypervisor, and EC2 control-plane services to deliver system interactions.
- Develop software and supporting scripts and tests, typically in C/C++ or Rust, Python, and Lua.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience with new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 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
165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C/C++, Rust, Python, Lua, Linux Kernel, Nitro Hypervisor, Xen, KVM
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