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Sr. SDE, EC2 Nitro Networking

Amazon· Software Development
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USA, WA, Seattle$168.1k - $227.4kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior software development engineer focused on the dataplane, performance optimizations, and networking for EC2 Nitro, with impact across ML, cloud gaming, health, fintech, and video streaming. Lead architecture, design, and mentorship while delivering secure, scalable, high-performance networking solutions at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end design, scoping, implementation, and integration testing of performance optimizations and dataplane features that run on the EC2 Nitro System that power Machine Learning workloads.
  • You set high standards for development processes, tools, and automation to enhance team productivity and quality.
  • Own the team architecture and define best engineering practices on design and coding.
  • You identify business problems and opportunities, and advocate for technical solutions that influences the technical roadmap for your team and partner teams.
  • Mentor junior engineers with scoping, design, and developing scalable and maintainable code.
  • Collaborate with Principal Engineers, Product Managers, Sr TPMs, and cross-functional teams to define requirements, system architectures, and implement robust and scalable solutions.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 7+ 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
  • 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
  • Experience in embedded development in C/C++
  • Knowledge of system performance, memory management, and parallel computing principles

Skills

Required:Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalentSoftware development experienceProgramming in C/C++Mentoring / Tech lead experience

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and life/AD&D insurance options
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • Employee assistance program and mental health support
  • Comprehensive benefits overview available on the Amazon benefits page
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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