Software Development Engineer, Amazon S3, Amazon S3

Overview

As an SDE in Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3), you will solve exciting problems at incomparable scale. You will help build systems that manage trillions of objects in storage, retrieve them in milliseconds, across tens of thousands of hosts, all while maintaining % (that’s 11 nines) of data durability. Amazon S3 powers businesses, nonprofits, and transformative organizations across the globe that make the lives of people better daily.

You will work with teams of talented engineers and leaders to hand deliver changes to our system that delight our customers, and in turn improve the lives of their customers.

• Build the services that persist and retrieve customer data. The services you own are the foundation of S3, and operating them at the scale of S3 provides challenging technical problems that you will solve.
• Be responsible for the design and implementation of new components and improvements to services within our space, and work with other engineers on your team to deliver.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle with a focus on reliability, testing, and code quality. We maintain a high bar for test automation, verification processes, design, and code reviews.
• Contribute to on-call rotations and resolve issues to minimize production impact, with the understanding that operator intervention is a last line of defense.
• Write code and solve problems at scale, deliver features and fix bugs, add testing to existing code, and improve operational tooling.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to design new components that shape the future of the system and grow to be a subject matter expert in your domain.

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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.

Inclusive Team Culture:
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including CORE and Amaze Con conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth:
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. You’ll find knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance:
We value work-life harmony and strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

• 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
• 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

• 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

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