Job Information
Amazon Senior Software Engineer , Amazon, S3 in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Description
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.
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.
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Work/Life Balance
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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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