Amazon
Sr. Software Engineer, EC2 VPC
$168K–$227K
San Diego, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 12, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in each of the specified software development, programming, and system design/architecture areas; additional experience thresholds are listed in preferred qualifications.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Leads development of EC2 networking services and software-defined networking dataplane features on the EC2 Nitro System, supporting scalable networking for ML, HPC, and other workloads.
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end design, implementation, and integration testing of products and features on the EC2 Nitro System.
- Own team architecture and establish engineering practices, development processes, tools, and automation.
- Set technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams on requirements and scalable architectures.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming in at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead; experience writing low-level drivers or embedded development in C/C++.
Nice to have
- 5+ 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; 4+ years of highly scalable systems experience; experience with embedded software.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C/C++, EC2 Nitro System, software-defined networking (SDN)
AI focus
Develops EC2 networking services and dataplane capabilities to scale Machine Learning (ML) platforms.
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