CareerPlan

Software Development Engineer II, EC2 Blackfoot Peering Team

Seattle, Washington, United StatesFull-time$144k–$194k2026-10-20 → 2026-10-22

Core

Design and implement high-performance forwarding and encapsulation services in C/C++ for AWS EC2 networking, processing millions of packets per second on embedded CPU cores.

Role type

Senior IC kernel and embedded C/C++ software engineer

Builds

Ultra-high performance dataplane code and networking services for AWS EC2

Domain

Cloud infrastructure / Systems programming / Embedded networking

Required skills

C, C++, kernel development, embedded development, data structures, low-level hardware tuning, multi-threaded systems design, object-oriented design

Preferred skills

Rust, Assembly Language, hardware specification reading, full software development lifecycle experience

Technologies

C, C++, Rust, Assembly

Responsibilities

Design and implement high-performance forwarding and encapsulation services; Collaborate with hardware engineers to translate specs into performant code; Participate in architecture decisions and code reviews; Own features across the full development lifecycle

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC