Software Development Engineer, AWS FSx for Windows

About the role

AWS FSx is a fast-growing managed file system service, offering customers their choice of file system with the quality, reliability, and scale of AWS. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join the Amazon FSx for Windows team as we grow and innovate with Windows on AWS.

Key job responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Dive deep into technical challenges at the OS, storage, and networking layers.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
• Lead and mentor engineers, contribute to a fun and inclusive work environment.

A day in the life

Our team of talented, passionate engineers use the latest in serverless and virtualization technologies to build distributed systems at AWS scale. We solve complex, varied problems to enable customers in a diverse set of businesses from AI/ML to EDA, Media & Entertainment to HPC, and enterprise IT whose mission-critical workloads run on filesystems. We build infrastructure-as-code to deploy software quickly and efficiently across the globe and automate the monitoring and health of our software at never-before-seen scale.

Basic Qualifications

• 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
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• Experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering
• Understanding of and experience with operating systems and file/storage technologies

Why AWS?

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 empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon 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. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we 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.