Software Development Engineer, EC2 Nitro Networking

Do you want to shape the future of virtualized networking in one of the worlds largest public clouds

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) NX Platforms team owns the packet processing pipeline running beneath every EC2 instance adding encryption firewalls (security groups) routing billing and monitoring to every packet on every host across our worldwide fleet of 9M hosts in more than 30 regions. Our vision: deliver bare-metal networking performance while raising the bar on EC2s security availability and reliability unlocking capabilities only possible through true Software Defined Networking (SDN).

We are growing fast and looking for senior systems engineers who can deliver ultra-high performance our goal is processing millions of packets per second on a single CPU core. This demands highly optimized data structures low-level hardware tuning and expertise in C/C. If you have a passion for systems software engineering kernel development embedded systems or high-performance networking this is a unique opportunity to define the next generation of the platform powering all new EC2 instance families and VPC features for years to come.

Your code ships to production across the entire EC2 fleet powering services like AWS Lambda and every external workload running on EC2. With frequent deployments and full ownership from design through operation your contributions have immediate measurable impact at global scale.

With an 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.

Ready to build the networking substrate for the worlds largest cloud Apply today.

Key job responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end design scoping implementation and integration testing of new features that run on the EC2 Nitro System.
- Design and build secure and scalable services to enable monitoring diagnostics and automated recovery.
- Design and build next generation hardware/software validation platforms that enables efficient CI/CD.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and define requirements design system architectures and implement robust and scalable solutions.
- Continuously improve development processes tools and automation to enhance productivity and quality.
- Mentor junior engineers with scoping design and developing scalable and maintainable code.

About the team
* Why AWS
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*Diverse Experiences
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*Mentorship and Career Growth
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- 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
- Experience in embedded development in C/C

- 3 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
- Knowledge of system performance memory management and parallel computing principles

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA San Diego - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually

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