Senior SDE, S3 Request Processing

Overview

Amazon S3 powers businesses across the globe that make the lives of consumers better daily. As a Senior Software Development Engineer in S3, you will deliver these capabilities and delight our customers through teams of talented engineers and leaders.

• Key job responsibilities: 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 for the S3 Request Processing organization you will contribute to key development projects integrating with S3 APIs, processing hundreds of trillions of transactions per month. You will build and enhance new services using distributed micro-services architectures and apply 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.

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• Basic 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

• 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

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