Software Development Engineer, S3 Request Processing, S3 - Simple Storage Service

Socket.dev; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon S3 Foundations invites engineers to shape one of the world’s largest services by building deployment, validation, and observability systems. You will work on high-scale, distributed software that touches every S3 request worldwide, driving faster, safer releases with strong focus on operational excellence and security.

This hands-on role emphasizes modernizing legacy services, reducing release times, and empowering engineers with self-service tools while integrating AI-assisted

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture of large-scale systems.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related experience.
• 1+ years designing and developing large-scale distributed software, tools, or services.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate distributed systems that deploy software to a large server fleet.
• Rewrite and modernize existing software and tune systems for cost, performance, and operations at scale.
• Build validation, deployment, and observability tooling for faster, safer engineering.
• Own end-to-end delivery from design through deployment and production operations.
• Collaborate with engineers across multiple teams to coordinate validation and delivery.

Skills

Software development

Design/architecture

Distributed systems

C++, Java, C#, Perl

OOP design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

Amazon S3 handles hundreds of millions of requests per second for customers around the world - and every one of those requests runs on software you'll help ship. As a Software Development Engineer on the S3 Foundations team, you will build the systems that validate, release, and observe new S3 software across every AWS Region on the planet, at a scale almost no other engineering role can offer.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) provides industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance for object storage. Customers of all sizes, from day-one startups to the world's largest enterprises, use Amazon S3 to deliver next-generation applications ranging from data analytics to AI to photo and video archives. While S3 has seen tremendous growth since launch in 2006, we are still in the early stages of realizing its full potential.

The S3 Foundations team is the foundation and force multiplier for S3's front-end engineering organization. We own the platform that safely delivers software to the fleet processing every S3 API request worldwide, from pre-production validation and qualification systems that catch problems before customers ever see them, to the post-processing services - metering, API events, and request logging - that power billing, auditing, and analytics for millions of AWS customers. When our team does its job well, customers get new S3 capabilities sooner, and hundreds of S3 engineers ship faster and more safely.

This is a hands-on engineering role at the intersection of massive-scale distributed systems, developer experience, and operational excellence. You will:

• Design and build the deployment, validation, and observability systems that every S3 front-end change flows through on its way to production.
• Work on an ambitious modernization agenda - increasing release frequency, compressing worldwide deployment times, hardening automated deployment safety, and re-architecting legacy services into modern, independently deployable systems.
• Build self-service tools that let S3 engineers validate, deploy, and observe their changes without waiting on anyone - and see your work directly measured in how much faster and safer they ship.
• Use AI as a core part of how you work: AI-assisted development, spec-driven modernization of legacy services, and building automated on-call assistants and agents that handle routine requests.

You’ll work on a tight-knit team where your designs and decisions directly shape how one of the world's largest services ships software. Because our platform is on the path of every S3 request worldwide, a passion for operational excellence, security, and availability is essential. Come build with us and make history with Amazon S3!

Key job responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate distributed systems that deploy software to one of the largest server fleets in the world.
• Rewrite and modernize existing software and tune systems to drive efficiencies at massive scale, with outsized impact on AWS's cost, performance, and operations.
• Build validation, deployment, and observability tooling that makes engineers across S3's front-end organization faster and safer.
• Own what you build end-to-end, from design through deployment and production operations, raising the bar on operational excellence as S3 scales.
• Collaborate with engineers across multiple S3 teams to coordinate feature validation and delivery.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ 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.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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 - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually