Senior Distributed Storage Engineer — Glacier-Scale

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Software Development Engineer for AWS Glacier, a durable, scalable cold storage service. You will lead the design and implementation of a distributed storage system that operates at scale, blending Java development with low-level hardware interfaces.

You’ll work on cutting-edge storage technology and drive cost-effective innovations across the service. As part of a senior engineering team, you will mentor teammates, contribute to architecture decisions, and help deliver

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with experienced 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

Tech lead

Architecture design

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon seeks a Software Development Engineer for AWS Glacier, a durable, scalable cold storage service. You will lead the design and implementation of a distributed storage system that operates at scale, blending Java development with low-level hardware interfaces.

You’ll work on cutting-edge storage technology and drive cost-effective innovations across the service. As part of a senior engineering team, you will mentor teammates, contribute to architecture decisions, and help deliver