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Software Development Engineer II, EC2 Blackfoot Peering Team

Amazon· Amazon Data Services, Inc.
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Seattle$143.7k - $194.4kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

AWS Infrastructure Services seeks a Software Development Engineer II to build high-performance forwarding and encapsulation services for EC2 networking. Embedded/C kernel-style development focus, optimizing for millions of packets per second on embedded cores, with collaboration across EC2 Networking and hardware teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement high-performance forwarding and encapsulation services in C and C++, optimizing data structures and tuning code for embedded CPU cores processing millions of packets per second.
  • Collaborate with hardware and software engineers across EC2 Networking to translate hardware specifications into performant dataplane code, ensuring scalability and reliability for AWS customers.
  • Participate in architecture decisions, design reviews, and code reviews, providing meaningful feedback to teammates and mentoring junior engineers on best practices for low-level systems development.
  • Own features across the full development lifecycle — from scoping and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and operations — while identifying root causes of operational issues and driving permanent fixes.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
  • 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
  • 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Skills

Required:C++CObject Oriented Design
Nice to have:RustAssembly Language

Benefits

  • Base salary range USA WA Seattle: 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs) included in package
  • Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D with optional supplemental life plans), EAP, Mental Health Support, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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