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Senior Software Development Engineer, EC2 VPC

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Hybrid (San Diego, CA)$168.1k - $227.4kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior SDE role focused on the EC2 VPC Packet Pipeline, delivering ultra high-performance kernel/embedded C networking software to support features like firewalling, billing, and monitoring across EC2 VPC, with leadership responsibilities and hands-on architecture and implementation work.

Responsibilities

  • Being the lead engineer on a small team, mentoring junior engineers, ensuring the right development practices are followed.
  • Be very hands-on; work with the engineering team to manage the day-to-day development activities by leading architecture decisions, participating in designs, design review, code review, and implementation.
  • Maintain current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, always on a look out for new technologies and work with management and development team in bringing new technologies.
  • Communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
  • 1+ years experience in leading a team in terms of architecture, mentoring and pushing best software development practices
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Experience developing in C or C++

Skills

Required:C/C++
Nice to have:kernel or embedded developmentLinuxTCP/IPAlgorithms and data structuresScripting (Python/Ruby)

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • 401(k) matching
  • paid time off
  • parential leave
  • adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
  • EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
  • RSUs and sign-on payments as part of compensation
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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