Amazon

SDE II, EC2 Instance Networking, EC2 Nitro

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4 days ago
Seattle, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$144k - $194k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the design, development, delivery, deployment, and operation of EC2 data-plane networking features on custom Nitro hardware.
  • Build network virtualization systems, packet-processing pipelines, low-latency protocols, and availability mechanisms for VPC connectivity and policy enforcement.
  • Investigate complex production issues across distributed embedded systems, perform root-cause analysis, and deliver permanent fixes.
  • Drive operational excellence, reliability, performance, scalability, and security for networking systems serving AWS customers.
  • Contribute to the EC2 Instance Networking technical roadmap and identify improvements to performance, scalability, and customer experience.
  • Collaborate with hardware, control plane, and ML platform teams on end-to-end solutions.
  • Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and engineering-quality and operational best practices.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • At least 2 years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • At least 1 year of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
  • At least 1 year of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
  • Preferred: 4+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Preferred: knowledge of system performance, memory management, and parallel computing principles.
  • Preferred: embedded development in C/C++, Linux OS and network troubleshooting, software development, networking protocols, and network programming involving packet processing, TCP/IP, UDP, or software-defined networking.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
  • Employee assistance program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • The position is based in Seattle, Washington, and the listed compensation is annual; Amazon also provides sign-on payments and restricted stock units.

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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.

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