Amazon EFS provides fully managed, elastic file storage that scales from gigabytes to petabytes without provisioning or management overhead. Customers rely on it for everything from simple web serving to large-scale analytics and ML training pipelines.
We're looking for engineers who want to work on distributed storage systems that serve real workloads at significant scale. You'll tackle challenges in replication, consistency, and fault tolerance. You'll operate what you build.
Key job responsibilities
What you'll work on:
- Distributed systems design: consensus protocols, replication strategies, failure handling
- Systems-level programming for storage engines and critical data paths
- Operating services at scale: performance tuning, debugging production issues, capacity planning
- Building tooling and automation that makes a small team effective at running large infrastructure
A day in the life
Tech environment: Java, C/C++, Rust, Go, and internal AWS systems. You'll work across the stack, from low-level optimization to service architecture. We're investing in AI-assisted development for systems engineering and you'll help define how we use it, from code generation to operational automation.
This role includes on-call responsibilities. We take operational excellence seriously: automated remediation, thorough runbooks, and a culture of fixing root causes rather than firefighting the same issues repeatedly.
EFS is built entirely in Boston. We're working on new capabilities that expand how customers use file storage with AWS. The team operates with a customer focus, working backward from real problems to build storage infrastructure that customers depend on for their most critical workloads.
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
- Experience with server, storage, networking, or large-scale distributed systems
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- Familiarity with consensus protocols (Paxos, Raft) or distributed consistency models
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, MA, Boston - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually