Senior Software Development Engineer EC2 VPC

Do you want to shape the future of virtualized (SDN) networking in the worlds biggest public cloud

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 VPC Packet Pipeline team owns the packet pipeline that runs right beneath all our customers EC2 VPC instances adding features like firewalling (security groups) billing and monitoring as we touch every single packet on every single host across our massive worldwide fleet. Our vision is to combine the performance of bare metal networking while maintaining all the benefits of the cloud including delivering features not possible on bare metal i.e. true Software Defined Networking (SDN).

We are growing fast and are looking for kernel/embedded C leaders who can deliver ultra high performance our goal is to be processing millions of packets per second on a CPU core. This requires both being able to implement highly optimized data structures but also low level (including by hand assembly and vectorizing) tuning to our hardware. If you have good experience in C/C and a passion for systems software engineering such as kernel or embedded development then this is a unique opportunity to join us at day one of building the platform which is the basis for all new EC2 VPC features in the years to come.


Your responsibilities will include:

Being the lead engineer on a small team mentoring junior engineers ensuring the right development practices are followed.

Be very handson; work with the engineering team to manage the daytoday 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

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5 years of noninternship 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
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Experience developing in C or C

5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Effective verbal and written communication skills
Proficiency in design and analysis of algorithms and data structures
Linux operating system knowledge development experience
Indepth knowledge of TCP/IP
Kernel or embedded development particularly Linux kernel
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations
Experience influencing software engineers best practices within your team
Scripting (Ruby/Python)

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.