Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC

Technology

SoftwareDevelopmentEngineerII,S3ShardStore

CA$80–192k Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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optimal for Mid candidates.

The Brief

“Software Development Engineer II, S3 Shard Store at Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC. Skills: Software development, System design, Storage services. Build services for data persistence. Build services for data retrieval”

What You'll Achieve.

Manage trillions of objects; Retrieve objects in milliseconds; Maintain 99.999999999% data durability

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Solve problems; Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years professional software development, 2+ years system design or architecture, Experience programming one language

Nice to Have

3+ years full SDLC experience, Bachelor's degree in computer science

What You'll Do.

Build services for data persistence

Build services for data retrieval

Design new components

Improve operational tooling

Design new components

Build expertise in service areas

Automate root causing

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with teams; Collaborate with senior engineers

Communication Scope

Write documents

Process & Methodology

Agile

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 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. A day in the life A typical day for an SDE in S3 Storage is based around writing code and solving problems at scale. On any given day, you may spend time delivering features and fixing bugs, add testing to existing code, improve operational tooling, collaborate with senior engineers to design new components that shape the future of the system, and build expertise in specific areas of the service and grow to be a subject matter expert in your domain. Occasionally, you will be involved in operational investigations to resolve and root cause customer impacting issues, as well as write documents outlining your solution to complex problems. In addition you will leverage gen AI to automate many of the roo

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