Software Development Engineer S3

Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 provides a keyvalue interface to an infinitely scalable and durable storage system. We build and run the largest commercial storage system in the world with over 400 trillions of objects.

We are part of the fast growing S3 team in Cambridge UK and build features to help customers make sense of the exabytes of data they store in S3 and how it is accessed. This means streaming and big data processing at the scale of over 150 million requests per second. We make use of a broad set of AWS technologies across databases realtime streaming compute platforms and data analytics engines.

We work closely with our customers and partners to understand their needs. We own customer facing features like CloudTrail events for S3 requests that give customers security governence and compliance auditing into their S3 activity. We also deliver CloudWatch request metrics that give customers operational visibility into how their data is accessed.

Ownership is central to everything we deliver at Amazon. You will own the entire lifecycle of your work from design to implementation testing and operations. We strive to build a collaborative work environment that lets you both broaden your impact and grow with the support of mentors and senior engineers on the team.

You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software is customercentric and feels strongly not only about building great software but about making that software achieve its goals in operational reality. Join us and help solve a challenging set of problems in a space packed full of opportunities.

S3 is part of AWS Utility Computing (UC) that provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key job responsibilities
Writing quality reusable code for highly scalable and reliable cloudbased services
Working closely with product and development management to architect the service
Being a champion for operational excellence by Insisting on the Highest Standards
Writing code that continuously improves service reliability and availability
Providing oncall product support approximately once every two months
Having fun working on ground breaking technology with people just as passionate about their work as you!


A day in the life
A typical day centers around delivering features for our customers whether we are in early design stages heads down on implementation or automating testing and deployments.

Collaboration is central to how we work meaning you can expect valuable input from your peers on the work you deliver. You will also participate in design reviews code reviews or even just brainstorming with other team members.

Our customer obsession shows in how we own daytoday operations for the services we build. This allows us to see what isnt working and prioritize making it right.

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Experience (noninternship) in professional software development
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including objectoriented design
Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle including coding standards software architectures code reviews source control management continuous deployments testing and operational excellence

Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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