Amazon
Software Development Engineer II, S3 API Experience
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Aug 7, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ year of software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ year designing and developing large-scale applications, tools, systems, and services.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate the distributed services that power Amazon S3’s Read Object API, improving performance, reliability, and scalability for customer data retrieval.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems for S3’s read path.
- Develop API features and system architectures; analyze and optimize existing systems.
- Collaborate across teams, participate in on-call operations and root-cause analyses, and improve system observability and reliability.
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.
- Experience developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; Object Oriented Design experience; and programming experience with at least one software language.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
Nice to have
- 3+ years across the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Master'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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