Software Development Engineer, S3 Buckets

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented Software Development Engineer to join their dynamic S3 Buckets team. In this role, you will tackle exciting challenges, building and enhancing the next generation of storage services that power businesses worldwide. You will collaborate with a skilled team, driving innovation while ensuring high-quality software delivery. This is an incredible opportunity to contribute to a platform that handles vast amounts of data and supports a diverse range of applications. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, this position offers a stimulating environment to grow your career.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience required.
• Experience with design patterns and system architecture is essential.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve the S3 API experience for millions of requests.
• Drive innovation and maintain high standards for software quality.

Skills

Software Development

Design Patterns

Reliability Engineering

Scaling Systems

Programming Languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Source Control Management

Testing Tools

Job description

Software Development Engineer, S3 Buckets

Job ID: 2934601 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Managing trillions of objects in storage, retrieving them in sub-x ms, new features that deploy to hundreds of thousands of hosts, achieving 99.999999999% durability. These are just a few of the numbers that give you a sense of the scale of the exciting problems you will find every day working in Simple Storage Service (S3). Amazon S3 powers businesses across the globe that make the lives of consumers better daily. Whether it's 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 Software Development Engineer in S3, you get to deliver these capabilities and delight our customers through teams of talented engineers and leaders.

Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions.

Key job responsibilities

The S3 Buckets team is looking for a passionate, experienced software engineer to build the next generation S3 Buckets service. The team designs, implements, operates, and improves the S3 API experience for all of S3. Our software processes millions of requests per second and bandwidth measured in terabits per second. We solve challenging customer problems, driving change across S3's vast customer base. You will work with your peer engineers on the team to deliver high-quality and scalable software. You will drive innovation to build the next generation of software to handle our exponential growth. You will code systems and services that allow rapid development to meet the fast-paced nature and interesting challenges that are at the heart of S3’s culture. In AWS, if you build it, you own it. S3 is a highly available 7x24 worldwide service requiring dedicated support from our engineering teams. We pride ourselves on a high level of ownership in the work we do. This means we hold a high bar for test automation, verification processes, design and code reviews to ensure that our systems meet the exacting standards our customers demand.

About the team

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2. 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
3. Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
2. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Posted: November 26, 2024 (Updated 15 minutes ago)

This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.