Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Cold Storage (Glacier)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Seattle is seeking a senior software engineer to design and implement a distributed storage service that scales at planetary scale. You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and deliver robust, low-latency code in a fast-moving team.

Join a culture that values innovation, inclusion, and continuous learning as you build secure, durable storage solutions and collaborate across cross-disciplinary teams to push the state of cloud storage.

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

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

Senior software development

Mentorship / lead

Design/architecture

Communication

Java/C++/Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equiv

Tools

Java

C++

Python

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Seattle is seeking a senior software engineer to design and implement a distributed storage service that scales at planetary scale. You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and deliver robust, low-latency code in a fast-moving team.

Join a culture that values innovation, inclusion, and continuous learning as you build secure, durable storage solutions and collaborate across cross-disciplinary teams to push the state of cloud storage.