Amazon S3 powers businesses across the 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.

Amazon Web Services' Cloud Storage, AWS S3, is one of the largest distributed storage systems in the world. Managing trillions of objects in storage, retrieving them in sub-x ms, building software that deploys to tens of thousands of hosts, achieving 99.999999999% durability. We take pride in solving complex problems, making a positive difference for our customer each day.

As a Software Development Engineer, you get to work alongside talented engineers and leaders to deliver solutions to complex problems and delight our customers.

Key job responsibilities

We have a diverse team and drive towards an inclusive culture and work environment. Our team is intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Our team members can connect in Amazon's 10+ affinity groups, sometimes known as employee resource groups, which bring employees together across businesses and locations around the world. These range from groups such as the Black Employee Network (BEN), Amazon Women in Engineering (AWE) and Glamazon (our LGBTQ+ community).

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 we're building, the tools we use and the business problems we're 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, you'll find countless presentations by some of the brightest minds in computing discussing solutions to many of the exciting problems we're solving in AWS today with new live-streaming videos added every week.

About the team

Felix team team help manage unutilized storage capacity and reduce waste through close coordination with Data center operations (DCO). We also manage Retirement and Consolidation of S3 fleet(s) where older hosts are retired to improve efficiency and reduce maintenance cost. Felix team broadly works on issues that increase usable storage space and our work helps S3 to continue scale and keep lower storage costs for our customers.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 4+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design experience

- 4+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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