Software Dev Engineer, EC2 Nitro

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Do you want to shape the future of virtualized (SDN) networking in one of the
world’s biggest public clouds?

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Nitro Dataplane team owns the packet
pipeline that runs right beneath all our customer's 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.

Requirements

• 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 programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Proficiency in design and analysis of algorithms and data structures
• In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP
• Kernel or embedded development, particularly Linux kernel
• Scripting (Ruby/Python/Rust)
• Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Knowledge of, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, Rust, Python or Perl
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level