Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS ECHyperplane

Description

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 and 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 excellence is key. A high level of ownership and accountability is a must.

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable distributed systems that power AWS EC2's network virtualization infrastructure, ensuring low‑latency and high‑throughput performance for millions of customer workloads.
• Lead technical design and architecture decisions for critical components of the Hyperplane platform, including packet processing, network policy enforcement, and traffic‑management systems.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and technical guidance, raising the engineering bar across the team.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams including network engineering, security, and product management to deliver customer‑facing features and improvements.
• Optimize system performance through profiling, benchmarking, and implementing improvements to meet stringent latency and throughput requirements.
• Participate in on‑call rotations, troubleshoot complex production issues, and drive operational excellence initiatives to improve system reliability and availability.
• Contribute to long‑term technical strategy and roadmap planning, identifying opportunities for innovation and architectural improvements.
• Write high‑quality, maintainable code in languages such as C++, Rust, or Java, following best practices for testing, documentation, and deployment.

The AWS EC2 Hyperplane team builds and operates the foundational network virtualization platform that powers Amazon EC2. Hyperplane is a massively scalable, distributed system that processes trillions of packets daily, providing secure network isolation, policy enforcement, and traffic management for millions of customer instances across AWS regions globally. The team tackles complex distributed systems challenges at unprecedented scale, focusing on ultra‑low latency, high throughput, and exceptional reliability.

• 8+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 8+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
• 8+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

• 8+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
• Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent.

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