Software Dev Engineer - AWS Glacier, Cold Storage, Glacier Customer Experience

Description The vast majority of data in the world is cold – it must be durably and securely retained for long periods of time, but is rarely ever accessed. Conventional storage systems are a poor fit for this domain as they are typically optimized for speed rather than space and cost. Amazon Glacier, Amazon Web Services’s recently launched storage service, has been designed from the ground up to provide extremely secure, durable and scalable cold data storage at an extremely low cost.

This unique set of constraints leads us to fascinating scaling and algorithmic problems that have never been tacked at our scale. In order to meet our vigorous cost goals, we have a constant need to drive fundamentally new storage technologies in the industry and come up with innovative ways to further optimize costs. We are beginning to work on the next set of major architectural enhancements to the service and are searching for a great senior engineer to join our growing team and our rapidly growing service.

Description The vast majority of data in the world is cold – it must be durably and securely retained for long periods of time, but is rarely ever accessed. Conventional storage systems are a poor fit for this domain as they are typically optimized for speed rather than space and cost. Amazon Glacier, Amazon Web Services’s recently launched storage service, has been designed from the ground up to provide extremely secure, durable and scalable cold data storage at an extremely low cost.

This unique set of constraints leads us to fascinating scaling and algorithmic problems that have never been tacked at our scale. In order to meet our vigorous cost goals, we have a constant need to drive fundamentally new storage technologies in the industry and come up with innovative ways to further optimize costs. We are beginning to work on the next set of major architectural enhancements to the service and are searching for a great senior engineer to join our growing team and our rapidly growing service.

As a developer on our team, you’ll have the opportunity to lead the design and implementation of a distributed storage service that operates r design and development work would range from distributed system service development in Java, to low level systems coding that interfaces directly with hardware. You’ll operate on the bleeding edge of innovations in the storage field, and will need to solve challenging fundamental computer science problems.

We are looking for a senior engineer who is keen to lead, invent in this space, and build what could easily become the largest data storage service on the planet.

Key job responsibilities

• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
• Take feature specifications and deliver working code that is maintainable and extendable.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

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