Software Dev Engineer, S3 Express One Zone

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is storage for the Internet. Through the use of pioneering techniques in storage and computing developers can reliably store their data on Amazons proven computing infrastructure to achieve virtually limitless storage capacity at minimal cost. Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface and web platform that can store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable reliable secure fast inexpensive infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of websites. The service aims to maximize the benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join our new team to help us design develop and implement the next generation product. You will focus on the challenges of writing distributed software to handle the vast array of S3 use cases with performance being the central binding theme. You will brainstorm new experiences with customers that break ground in enabling new enterprise workloads on S3.



Key job responsibilities
- Design implementation deployment and maintenance of innovative software solutions to transform service performance availability cost and security.
- Use Rust and software engineering best practices to ensure the standard of quality of all team deliverables.
- Write high quality distributed system software.
- Work in an agile development environment where you are always working on the most important stuff.
- Mentor junior software development engineers.



About the team
About the team
S3 Express is a new zonal object storage class built for SSD-based Machine Learning Data Lake workloads providing a true single-zone and single- digit-millisecond latency storage class for the customers.

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- 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 software development engineer or related occupational 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

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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