Software Development Engineer, S3 Buckets

Job  | 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 % 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.

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.

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.

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)

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