Amazon
Senior Software Development Engineer, S3 Storage Cells
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 26, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for software development, programming, and leading design or architecture; experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead is also required, with no duration specified.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Designs, builds, deploys, and operates distributed storage services and control-plane components that persist and retrieve customer data at Amazon S3 scale.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, deploy, and maintain software that improves performance, cost, and reliability.
- Build distributed-system components and improvements to services for storing and retrieving customer data.
- Own service quality and operations, including testing, verification, code reviews, and participation in an on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years of experience leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life-cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
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