This is a hands-on engineering role at the intersection of massive-scale distributed systems, developer experience, and operational excellence. You will:
- Design and build the deployment, validation, and observability systems that every S3 front-end change flows through on its way to production.
- Work on an ambitious modernization agenda - increasing release frequency, compressing worldwide deployment times, hardening automated deployment safety, and re-architecting legacy services into modern, independently deployable systems.
- Build self-service tools that let S3 engineers validate, deploy, and observe their changes without waiting on anyone - and see your work directly measured in how much faster and safer they ship.
- Use AI as a core part of how you work: AI-assisted development, spec-driven modernization of legacy services, and building automated on-call assistants and agents that handle routine requests.
You'll work on a tight-knit team where your designs and decisions directly shape how one of the world's largest services ships software. Because our platform is on the path of every S3 request worldwide, a passion for operational excellence, security, and availability is essential. Come build with us and make history with Amazon S3!
Key job responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate distributed systems that deploy software to one of the largest server fleets in the world.
- Rewrite and modernize existing software and tune systems to drive efficiencies at massive scale, with outsized impact on AWS's cost, performance, and operations.
- Build validation, deployment, and observability tooling that makes engineers across S3's front-end organization faster and safer.
- Own what you build end-to-end, from design through deployment and production operations, raising the bar on operational excellence as S3 scales.
- Collaborate with engineers across multiple S3 teams to coordinate feature validation and delivery.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, VA, Arlington - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually