Senior SDE, S3 Request Processing

Overview

Amazon S3 powers businesses around the world, delivering electronic content, remote working technologies, travel planning tools, and e‑commerce solutions. As a Senior Software Development Engineer in S3, you will help build capabilities that delight customers and drive the growth of our cloud services.

The 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 you will contribute to key development projects integrating with the S3 API and processing hundreds of trillions of transactions per month. You will build and enhance new services using distributed micro‑services architectures, 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.

• 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 of new and existing systems (design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• 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.

Base salary range:  –  USD annually. Your package will include sign‑on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and comprehensive benefits covering health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D), 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, mental health support, and more.

USA, VA, Arlington