Software Development Engineer, S3 Object API

Managing trillions of objects in storage retrieving them in sub-x ms building software that deploys to tens of thousands of hosts achieving 99.% (you didnt read that wrong thats 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). Amazon S3 powers businesses across e globe that make the lives of consumers better daily. Whether its electronic content delivered to your home technology that betters your remote working experience allows you to plan travel to exotic places or simply get stuff delivered to your home.

Key job responsibilities
Software Development Engineer S3 Object API
Join the S3 Object API team and build services at massive scale supporting billions of requests per minute across a globally distributed fleet serving millions of customers.
What Youll Do:

- Design develop and maintain highly available services powering Amazon S3
- Build tools and automation to streamline operations improve CI/CD pipelines and reduce operational load
- Drive best practices for code quality fleet health security and reliability
- Mentor junior engineers helping them grow their skills and effectiveness
- Participate in design reviews operations meetings and leadership discussions
- Write clear documentation to help teams get the most from our services and tools

What to Expect:

- Ship code frequently and see its real-world impact on a vast customer base
- Work alongside engineers who obsess over performance availability scalability and durability
- Participate in an on-call rotationwe invest heavily in automation and testing to minimize disruptions
- Enjoy a team culture that values work/life balance while maintaining high standards

Our Philosophy:
At AWS if you build it you own it. We hold a high bar for test automation design reviews and operational excellencebecause our customers demand nothing less.


A day in the life
Upon joining S3 every employee is paired with a peer buddy who will help you to quickly come up to speed in understanding the technology were building the tools we use and the business problems were trying to solve. We hire exceptional people and we recognize the importance of coaching others. We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location job family and job level. On our internal Broadcast video streaming website youll find countless presentations by some of the brightest minds in computing discussing solutions to many of the exciting problems were solving in AWS today with new live-streaming videos added every week.

About the team
About AWS
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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 theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.


- 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
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors 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.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. 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. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually