At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and manage high-performance storage systems for Amazon S3 at an incredible scale.
- Company: Join Amazon, a leader in tech innovation with a focus on customer impact.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, health benefits, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Be part of a dynamic team with opportunities for growth and learning.
- Why this job: Tackle exciting challenges while making a difference for millions of users worldwide.
- Qualifications: 3+ years of software development experience and strong problem-solving skills required.
The predicted salary is between 114800 - 191800 $ per year.
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% 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 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 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 root causing reducing manual operator involvement.
The S3 Storage Nodes team works on building and supporting high performance storage service to S3 customers. The team works in an agile fashion to deliver and scale our service as we scale on new platforms including Metal Volumes, and new hardware types in 2026. Key technical challenges in the team are around Security, Durability, Availability, Performance, and Cost.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being.
We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
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