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) VPC Dataplane team owns the packet pipeline that powers customer's EC2 VPC instances by providing features like elastic network interfaces, firewalls (security groups), routing, billing and monitoring. Our networking stack touches every single packet on every single host across our worldwide fleet in more than 30 regions, serving applications across E-Commerce, Finance, Healthcare, Media, Software, Machine Learning, and Government.

We are seeking a Software Engineer with experience in Embedded Software Development, Cloud Computing and Networking to join our VPC Dataplane team. This role will span multiple technology areas, providing an opportunity to innovate across a variety of platforms and systems.

With the extensive network and access to Principal, Sr. Principal and Distinguished Engineers across EC2, AWS and Amazon, you are surrounded by talent that will provide you opportunities to grow your skills and knowledge.


Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:

- Develop new features and enhancements for the VPC dataplane that run on embedded systems across our global fleet of EC2 hosts.
- 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 Principal Engineers, Product Managers, Sr TPMs, and cross-functional teams to define requirements, design system architectures, and implement robust and scalable solutions.
- Continuously improve development processes, tools, and automation to enhance productivity and quality.
- Support junior engineers with scoping, design; providing mentorship to ensure 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.