Software Development Engineer - AWS S3 Index Services

Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.

The S3 Index team is looking for passionate, experienced software engineers to build the next generation of S3 indexing system that enables new capabilities to our customers. As a member of S3 Indexing team you will be tackling some of the hardest computer science problems. Creating reliable, scalable, and flexible services requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly not only about building great software but about making that software achieve its goals in operational reality.

• Design, implementation, deployment and maintenance of innovative software solutions to transform service security, durability, availability, performance, cost and enable new features
• Use software engineering best practices to ensure the standard of quality of all team deliverables
• Write high quality distributed systems software
• Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.
• Mentor junior software development engineer

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of industry experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, OO and core Computer Science concepts
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern OO programming language such as Java (prefrred), C# or C++
• Experience with building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
• Understanding of networking protocols
• Understanding of how storage systems work
• Comfortable using Linux environments
• Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
• MS/Phd Degree in Computer Science