The role involves building and operating the software-defined networking stack for AWS, specifically for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instance Networking team. This team focuses on creating networking infrastructure that supports virtual machines and machine learning workloads at scale. The position requires writing low-level systems code in C and Rust for custom hardware in a real-time embedded environment. The work includes addressing complex production issues and collaborating with various teams to deliver comprehensive solutions.

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture 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
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• 4+ years of full software development life cycle experience
• Knowledge of system performance, memory management, and parallel computing principles
• Experience in networking, large-scale distributed systems or a related field
• Experience in Linux and Networking protocols

• Design and implement data plane networking software on custom hardware
• Build and improve network virtualization systems for EC2 customers
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues across distributed embedded systems
• Collaborate with partner teams to deliver end-to-end solutions

• 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.