Software Development Engineer II, S3 Routing and Blob Placement

Managing trillions of objects in storage retrieving them in milliseconds building software that deploys to tens of thousands of hosts designed for 99.% durability. These are just a few of the numbers that give you a sense of the scale of the exciting problems you will find every day working on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable reliable secure fast inexpensive infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites.

Amazon S3 powers businesses across the globe that make the lives of consumers better daily. Whether its electronic content delivered to your home technology that betters your remote working experience allows you to plan travel to exotic places or simply get stuff delivered to your home. As a Software Development Engineer in S3 you get to deliver these capabilities and delight our customers through teams of talented engineers and leaders.

We are looking for software engineers to lead innovation in our Amazon S3 storage request plane team and help us build the next generation of highly scaleable fault tolerant services. We seek smart passionate people to help us define this exciting new technology.

Responsibilities include:


Design implementation deployment and maintenance of innovative software solutions to deliver new features in performance cost high availability

Use software engineering best practices to ensure the standard of quality of all team deliverables

Build and implement high quality distributed system software.

Work in an agile environment prioritizing most important and impactful projects

Collaborate and communicate in team settings

Mentor team members as well as build relationships with business and technical leadership

Our team puts high value on work/life balance. We recognize that the circumstances of our team members vary and we balance work across the team so that were all able to maintain high standards on behalf of our customers as well as allow for rich and happy personal lives. We maintain a regular on-call rotation across our teams with engineers and managers all taking part to resolve the inevitable issues that arise. We dont like getting paged outside of work hours so we work to ensure our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged we work together to resolve root cause so that we dont get paged for the same issue twice.

Upon joining S3 every employee is paired with a peer buddy who will help you to quickly come up to speed in understanding the technology were building the tools we use and the business problems were trying to solve. We hire exceptional people and we recognize the importance of coaching others. We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location job family and job level.

- 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN BC Vancouver - 114800.00 - 191800.00 CAD annually