Amazon
Sr. SDE, EC2 Nitro Networking, EC2 Nitro Networking
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development; 7+ years programming; 5+ years leading design or architecture; 7+ years full software development life cycle.
- 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 dataplane features and performance optimizations.
- Own team architecture and engineering practices; improve development processes, tools, and automation.
- Shape technical roadmaps, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams on requirements and system architecture.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience and 7+ years programming in at least one language.
- 5+ years leading system design or architecture, plus 7+ years across the full software development life cycle.
- Mentoring, tech lead, or engineering team leadership experience; 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 model execution optimization.
- Knowledge of machine learning model architecture and inference; experience in 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 System
AI focus
Builds networking dataplane features and performance optimizations for machine-learning workloads. Preferred experience includes ML/LLM architecture, training and inference lifecycles, and model execution optimization.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative