Amazon
Senior Software Engineer, AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) Performance
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 19, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the first three basic qualifications; the posting does not specify a duration for mentoring, tech lead, or engineering team leadership. Preferred: 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Develop and optimize AWS EBS software to deliver consistent, low-latency block storage at scale.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and test software that improves latency, throughput, availability, and scalability.
- Develop high-performance C++ software and solve performance problems across hardware and software.
- Contribute to the EBS roadmap and monitor and improve system reliability and observability.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C++, AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS), EC2
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