Amazon
Software Development Engineer, Amazon S3 Index
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Jul 30, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ years designing and developing large-scale software; 1+ years of Object Oriented Design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate scalable, highly available S3 Index systems that manage key-value metadata for Amazon S3.
What you'll do
- Develop the next generation of S3 Index systems for durability and availability of metadata.
- Design and build reliable, scalable distributed software for varying access patterns and high customer loads.
- Own software operationally, including testing, verification, reviews, and participation in the on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience involving design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 1+ years designing and developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; and 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ 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
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl
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