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Software Development Engineer, BigMac Hyperplane

Amazon

Location

Santa Clara, CA

Type

Full-time

Posted

5/5/2026

Compensation

$165,200 - $223,600 per year

Undergraduate with 2+ Years of Experience
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Job description

The Software Development Engineer role at AWS Elastic Load Balancing/EC2 Networking focuses on delivering a distributed Network Function Virtualization platform. The team is responsible for critical customer-facing services and internal AWS services, emphasizing operational excellence and customer-centric solutions. Candidates will work in a diverse environment, collaborating with engineers and specialists to innovate and enhance AWS networking infrastructure. This position requires a passion for technology and a commitment to building resilient, scalable services.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
  • 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 using C#, C++, Java, or Perl
  • 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deploy scalable networking solutions for AWS services including VPC, EFS, ELB, and EC2
  • Build next-generation networking infrastructure that operates at massive scale with high reliability
  • Write clean, maintainable code that meets Amazon's quality standards and passes rigorous testing
  • Own operational health of services, including monitoring, alarming, and incident response
  • Participate in on-call rotation and drive root cause analysis for operational issues
  • Implement automated testing, deployment pipelines, and isolation mechanisms to improve system reliability
  • Work closely with AWS service teams to understand requirements and deliver networking solutions that eliminate customer pain points
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and technical designs for new features
  • Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
  • Mentor junior engineers on technical best practices, coding standards, and operational excellence

Benefits

  • Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.

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