Software Development Engineer, S3 Buckets

About the role

Amazon Web Services' Cloud Storage, AWS S3, is one of the largest distributed storage systems in the world. Managing trillions of objects in storage, retrieving them in sub-x ms, building software that deploys to tens of thousands of hosts, building applications serving billions of transactions per second, achieving 99.999999999% (11 nines) durability. These are just a few of the numbers that give you a sense of the scale of the exciting problems you will find every day working in Simple Storage Service (S3).

S3 Index develops software responsible for durability and availability of key-value metadata. We tackle some of the hardest computer science problems, building systems that handle wildly varying access patterns and unprecedented load. Managing this growth automatically, without requiring customers to provision capacity, is what puts the "Simple" in Simple Storage Service (S3).

As a Software Development Engineer in S3 Index, you will build the next generation of S3 Index systems. In AWS, if you build it, you own it. S3 is a highly available 7x24 worldwide service requiring dedicated support from our engineering teams. We pride ourselves on a high level of ownership, holding a high bar for test automation, verification processes, design, and code reviews to meet the exacting standards our customers demand. We maintain a regular on-call rotation across our teams, with engineers and managers all taking part to resolve issues that arise. We work hard to minimize getting paged in the middle of the night, recognizing that a well-rested employee is a productive employee.

Upon joining S3, every employee is paired with a peer buddy to help you quickly come up to speed in understanding the technology we’re building, the tools we use, and the business problems we’re solving. We also have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor based on location, job family, and job level. Our internal “Broadcast” video streaming website features countless presentations by some of the brightest minds in computing, discussing solutions to many of the exciting problems we’re solving in AWS today.

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.
• Investigate design approaches, prototype new technology, and evaluate technical feasibility with other team members.
• 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.

Requirements

• 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support.
• Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

USA, WA, Seattle - $143,700.00 - $194,400.00 USD annually.

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Utility Computing (UC) AWS 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 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 specialized security solutions for customers who require them.

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.