Software Development Engineer, EC2 Instance Networking

Amazon • Seattle, WA • Posted June 13, 2026

About the Role

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

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instance Networking team owns the packet pipeline that runs right beneath all our customer's EC2 VPC instances, adding features like firewalling (security groups), billing and monitoring as we touch every single packet on every single host across our massive worldwide fleet. 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 i.e. true Software Defined Networking (SDN).

We are looking for a SW Engineer to help build our next generation of automation and analytics services to help scale AWS VPC. In this role, you will be part of a team that builds scalable frameworks and highly available services to automate fault detection (e.g. test failures, crashes, network performance degradation), remediation ...