Amazon
Software Development Engineer, Glacier
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Jun 18, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for software development, programming, and design or architecture leadership; no duration specified for mentoring or team leadership.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Designs and builds a cloud-scale distributed storage service for Amazon Glacier, including systems for migrating, placing, and retrieving customer data.
What you'll do
- Lead the design and implementation of distributed storage services, from Java development to low-level hardware-facing systems code.
- Own and improve customer-data migration pipelines, including reducing migration costs and optimizing speed and security.
- Develop data placement approaches that support faster retrieval and garbage collection.
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 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)
Tools
Java
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