Drimva

Amazon

Sr. SDE, EC2 Nitro Networking

$168K–$227K

Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 20, 2026

Experience
7+ years of non-internship professional software development and programming experience; 5+ years leading design or architecture; 7+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
Education
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

About the job

Leads development of EC2 Nitro networking dataplane features and performance optimizations for machine-learning workloads across HPC and accelerated platforms.

What you'll do

  • Lead design, implementation, and integration testing of performance optimizations and dataplane features.
  • Own team architecture and engineering practices; improve development processes, tools, and automation.
  • Shape technical roadmaps, collaborate across teams, and mentor junior engineers.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience, including 7+ years programming in at least one language.
  • 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems; 7+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
  • Experience mentoring, tech leading, or leading an engineering team; embedded development in C/C++; knowledge of system performance, memory management, and parallel computing.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution.
  • Knowledge of machine learning model architecture and inference; experience developing low-level systems software, networking dataplane, or performance-critical services.

Pay

168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

C/C++, EC2 Nitro

AI focus

Develops networking dataplane performance and availability optimizations for machine-learning workloads; preferred experience includes ML/LLM fundamentals and model inference optimization.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)