senior Software Engineer ic · Posted Apr 16, 2026
$193,300 – $261,500
USD per year

About this role

Amazon is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Santa Clara, CA. The posting calls out experience with Java, Rust, AWS, Networking. Compensation is listed at $193,300–$261,500 per year.

Role
Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Department
Software Development
Posted
Apr 16, 2026

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Job description

from Amazon careers

Hyperplane is looking for a Software Development Engineer for a critical part of its service that delivers a distributed Network Function Virtualization (NFV) platform. This team owns the data plane and distribution plane systems used for both customer-facing services such as NAT Gateway, Elastic File System, Load Balancers, AWS service endpoints as well as many internal AWS services. This is a balanced team of senior and junior engineers that has proven it can deliver very important features for our customers. The successful candidate will be comfortable dealing with ambiguity, be very customer-centric and able to think big! The ideal candidate will be passionate about the potential of cloud computing as well as about building great resilient, scalable and high-performance distributed services. This strong engineer has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a rapid growth environment exhibiting abilities to prioritize well, communicate clearly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong team. They are a seasoned, mature engineer who is comfortable working in a fast-paced team. AWS in general, and this business in particular, operates at very large scale and on critical workloads, so a passion and discipline around operational…

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