Software Development Engineer, EC2 Instance Networking
Amazon · Santa Clara, CA · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer based in Santa Clara, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Rust, C, AWS. Compensation is listed at $165,200–$223,600 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Apr 20, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersJoin our team building the scale-out networking backbone that powers the world's largest AI training clusters. We're developing high-performance RDMA and RoCE solutions that enable distributed training of trillion-parameter models across thousands of compute nodes on AWS infrastructure. Our team is responsible for creating the networking software that connects massive AI accelerator clusters, focusing on SmartNIC integration, collective communication optimization, and ultra-high-bandwidth inter-rack connectivity. You'll be working at the intersection of cloud infrastructure and state-of-the-art AI hardware to solve some of the most challenging networking problems in distributed computing. Key job responsibilities * Design and develop high-performance networking software solutions utilizing RDMA and RoCE technologies for large-scale AI clusters * Integrate SmartNIC acceleration hardware with EC2 control plane systems and APIs * Implement and optimize collective communication patterns for distributed AI training workloads * Develop comprehensive performance monitoring, metrics collection, and benchmarking tools for high-bandwidth cluster interconnects * Create automated testing frameworks and stress testing tools for multi-rack distributed systems * Debug complex system-level issues across hardware acceleration, kernel networking, and distributed applications * Collaborate on architecture decisions for next-generation scale-out AI infrastructure * Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and technical documentation About the team Utility Computing (UC) AWS…