Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Cloud Computing

SoftwareDevelopmentEngineer,AmazonS3

$70–194k Seattle, Washington, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.

The Brief

“Software Development Engineer, Amazon S3 at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.. Skills: Software Development, System Design, Distributed Systems. Build services to persist data. Build services to retrieve data”

Industry & Context.

Cloud Computing
Problems you'll solve

Solve problems at scale; Troubleshooting

Eligibility Requirements

On-call rotation

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years professional software development, 2+ years system design or architecture, 1+ years software development engineer experience, 1+ years designing distributed software applications, 1+ years Object Oriented Design experience, Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent, Experience programming with at least one language

Nice to Have

3+ years full software development life cycle experience

What You'll Do.

Build services to persist data

Build services to retrieve data

Design new components

Ensure systems meet standards

Resolve inevitable issues

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with teams; Collaborate with senior engineers

Full Job Description

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 99.999999999% (you didn’t read that wrong, 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. As an SDE in S3, 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. Key job responsibilities As an SDE in S3's Storage team, you will build the services that persist and retrieve customer data. The services you will own are the foundation of S3, and managing them at the scale of S3 provides challenging technical problems that you will solve. That scale provides leverage for your work to improve the experience of many customers, and you will tackle some of the most difficult problems in S3 head-on. You will be responsible for the design and implementation of new components and improvements to services within our space, and will work with other engineers on your team to deliver. In AWS, if you build it, you own it. S3 is a highly available 24x7 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 we demand in service of our customers. We maintain a regular on-call rotation across our teams with engineers and managers all taking part to resolve the inevitable issues that arise. We work hard to minimize getting paged in the middle of the night as we recognize that operator intervention should be a last line of defense rather than the d

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