Systems Development Engineer, S3

About the role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of Amazon's fastest growing businesses, servicing millions of customers in more than 190 countries. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is storage for the Internet, setting the standard for functionality, cost, and performance for storage in the cloud. With trillions of objects under management, S3 is one of the most successful services anywhere. S3 Unique Regions group is responsible for S3 service in AWS regions beyond the regular public service offerings, including private regions operated for the U.S. government with stringent security requirements.

Responsibilities

• Technical lead for small engineering team through the full software lifecycle
• Identify, plan, deliver, and operate software and processes that generate Customer Obsessed, business impacting improvements for AWS operations
• Work with AWS engineers to identify process automation opportunities
• Perform full-lifecycle software development with constant customer interaction to scope, design, implement, test, deliver, and operate software solutions
• Learn and grow using a DevOps, Agile Scrum, incremental delivery philosophy with highly-supportive peers constantly sharing subject matter expertise and producing peer-reviewed code
• Participate in on-call rotation supporting our own automation solutions and eventually move to the on-call rotation that operates the entire S3 service itself in unique regions

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
• 4+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience
• 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 4+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers

About the team

We take joy in building meaningful solutions. We work side-by-side with our customers to solve their challenges and share our victories. We see diversity and inclusion as fundamental with everyone deserving a voice, our respect, and celebration of their contributions. We work as a team to deliver results, share our expertise freely, and grow together as professionals and people.

Location: USA, VA, Herndon
Base salary range: 151,200.00 - 204,600.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.