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