Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Software Development Engineer to build and optimize EC2 Nitro high memory and HPC capabilities. In this role, you'll design and implement low-latency, high-throughput services powering large memory instances and compute-intensive workloads. You'll work closely with senior engineers to improve reliability, scalability, and performance, using data-driven experimentation and profiling. You'll own services end-to-end-from design and coding to deployment, monitoring, and operational excellence-in a fast-paced, customer-obsessed environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain EC2 Nitro high memory and HPC features and services.

• Optimize low-latency, high-throughput systems for performance, scalability, and reliability.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements and architecture.

• Own services end-to-end, including deployment, monitoring, and operations.

• Use metrics, profiling, and experimentation to drive performance and availability improvements.

• Contribute to code reviews, design reviews, and best practices for systems engineering.

• Implement secure, resilient solutions aligned with AWS operational excellence standards.

• Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive root-cause analysis and remediation.

Required Skills

• Java

• C++Rust

• Go

• Linux systems programming

• Distributed systems design

• High-performance computing (HPC)

• Performance profiling and optimization

• AWS services (EC2, VPC, Cloud

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• Networking and virtualization fundamentals