S3 Index Systems Engineer – Scale & Reliability

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 team in Seattle is looking for a Software Development Engineer to help build the next generation of storage systems. You will work on a highly scalable, durable object storage platform that serves trillions of objects and billions of transactions per second.

The role emphasizes ownership, on-call readiness, robust test automation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and operate reliable services that customers depend on daily.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
• Take feature specifications and deliver working code that is maintainable and extendable.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

Skills

Software development

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 team in Seattle is looking for a Software Development Engineer to help build the next generation of storage systems. You will work on a highly scalable, durable object storage platform that serves trillions of objects and billions of transactions per second.

The role emphasizes ownership, on-call readiness, robust test automation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and operate reliable services that customers depend on daily.