Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Technology

Sr.SoftwareDevEngineer,S3

$100–227k Seattle, Washington, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Sr. Software Dev Engineer, S3 at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.. Skills: Software Development, System Design, Storage Services. Build services that persist data. Build services that retrieve data”

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 exciting problems; Solve challenging technical problems; Solve difficult problems; Operational investigations; Root cause analysis

Eligibility Requirements

On-call rotation

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years non-internship professional software development, 5+ years programming experience, 5+ years leading design or architecture, 5+ years experience as a mentor, 5+ years experience as a tech lead, 5+ years experience leading an engineering team

Nice to Have

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

What You'll Do.

Build services that persist data

Build services that retrieve data

Own services foundation of S3

Solve challenging technical problems

Design new components

Deliver changes to system

Hold high bar for test automation

Hold high bar for verification processes

Hold high bar for design

Hold high bar for code reviews

Maintain on-call rotation

Resolve inevitable issues

Solve problems at scale

Improve operational tooling

Collaborate to design components

Build expertise in service areas

Grow subject matter expert

Involve in operational investigations

Resolve customer impacting issues

Root cause customer impacting issues

Write documents outlining solutions

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with teams; Work with leaders; Work with other 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. Utility Computing (UC) AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. 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 h

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