Senior Software Engineer

Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) provides a key-value interface to an infinitely scalable and durable object storage system. We build and run the largest commercial object storage system in the world with trillions of objects and regularly serving millions of requests per second.

The S3 Compute team builds features for S3 that make application solutions with S3 fast and inexpensive and integrate our customers applications with other AWS services. Our features, services, and libraries are used by hundreds of thousands of customers supporting a variety of diverse use cases including event-driven architectures, transformation of data on the fly, data lake analytics, and security compliance. As a highly available Amazon service, our solutions have to be easy to use, scalable, efficient, and extremely fault tolerant.

S3 is part of AWS Utility Computing (UC) that provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:

* Work with product managers and development managers to design and build new features and improve existing features
* Lead and mentor talented software engineers
* Participate in a development/operations service model to truly own the team’s software
* Utilize quality software engineering techniques like formal verification methods and resiliency threat assessments to build world-class quality software
* Directly influence business success with performance and cost optimization engineering

About the team
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance and team collaboration. Our teams work in a hybrid mode where we spend time in the office collaborating and other times working from home. We are dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior engineers truly enjoy mentoring engineers from a variety of diverse backgrounds through one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, technical reviews. We are passionate about learning and career development for all of our team members.

About AWS.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

S3 High Performance Client Connectors team exists as direct result of S3 evolving its idea of extending its service boundary from the server side of the REST API to the client-side tooling that customers use to access S3. Our mission is to make the client experience easy, fast, durable and secure, reducing as much as we can, the friction for our customers to adopt S3 storage. There are many connectors today, used by customers to integrate with S3. It is impossible for us to cover all connectors, and we also think it is not the best way to scale our work and contributions. Instead, we see two ways to implement our mission: 1/build products when there are gaps in the market, and 2/contribute to existing S3 Client connectors by enabling S3 best practices via integration of reusable, high quality and high leverage primitives.

About AWS
Diverse Experiences :Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture: Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth: We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Cambridge, GBR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience in professional, non-internship software development
- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in development in the last 3 years

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

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