Senior Software Engineer, EC2 Nitro

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

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Nitro Dataplane team owns the packet pipeline that runs right beneath all our customers EC2 VPC instances adding features like firewalls (security groups) routing billing and monitoring as we touch every single packet on every single host across our worldwide fleet in more than 30 regions. 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 leading to true Software Defined Networking (SDN).

We continue to grow and are looking for kernel/embedded C programmers who can deliver ultra-high performance for our EC2 customers - our goal is to be processing many millions of packets per second on embedded CPU cores. This requires both being able to implement highly optimized data structures but also low level tuning to our hardware. If you have good experience in C/C or Rust and a passion for systems software engineering such as kernel or embedded software development then this is a unique opportunity to join us in building the platform which is the basis for all new EC2 VPC features in the years to come.

You can have an immediate impact for all of our customers including internal customers such as AWS Lambda and external customers that run on Amazon EC2 as we deploy new features and updates regularly and often.

With the extensive network and access to Principal Sr. Principal and Distinguished Engineers across EC2 AWS and Amazon there are many stretch opportunities to grow your skills and knowledge.

Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:

* Being an 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

- 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

- 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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually