Senior SDE, S3 Request Processing (AWS)

Amazon; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Sign-on payments

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon S3 is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Arlington, VA to help process massive volumes of requests with scalable microservices. You will design, build and mentor on services that power S3 APIs and enable secure, reliable operations.

The role requires 5+ years of professional software development, strong leadership or mentorship experience, and a CS degree or equivalent. Amazon offers RSUs, sign-on, comprehensive health coverage, 401(k) matching, generous PTO and parental

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable services within S3 Request Processing.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship features.
• Ensure security, reliability and performance at scale.

Skills

Software development

Leadership / mentoring

Distributed systems

Microservices

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Job ID: 10390241 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Amazon S3 powers businesses across the globe that make the lives of consumers better daily. Whether its electronic content delivered to your home, technology that betters your remote working experience, allows you to plan travel to exotic places or simply get stuff delivered to your home. As a Senior Software Development Engineer in S3, you get to deliver these capabilities and delight our customers through teams of talented engineers and leaders.

Key Responsibilities

The S3 Request Processing organization is tasked with building the next generation of services to process customer request metadata, providing logging and eventing solutions to S3 customers. As a Senior Software Development Engineer you will contribute to key development projects integrating with S3 API's processing hundreds of trillions of transactions per month. You will build and enhance new services using distributed micro‑services architectures and expert knowledge, pattern recognition, and machine learning techniques to efficiently analyze requests at the massive scale of S3.

Senior Engineers on this team must have a deep knowledge of computer science, a solid foundation in secure engineering practices, and a genuine desire to mentor and lead their more junior teammates.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, VA, Arlington - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually