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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