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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Development Engineer, S3 Storage Cells - **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc. - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $168,100.0 - $227,400.0 - **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position - **Skills:** Amazon S3, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Computer Programming, Customer Data Management, Software Design Patterns, Distributed Systems, Software Construction, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Information Technology, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control, Programming Languages - **Published:** August 28, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10516064/senior-software-development-engineer-s3-storage-cells ## About the Role 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience - 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience - 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience - Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team Preferred Qualifications - 5+ 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 ## Description Managing trillions of objects in storage, retrieving them in ms, building software that deploys to tens of thousands of hosts, designed for 99.999999999% 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 in Simple Storage Service (S3). 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 currently looking for talented software development engineers to lead innovation in our Amazon S3 storage control plane team. Our team is passionate about the incredible opportunity that Amazon S3 presents and about cloud computing, in general. You will have the opportunity to deliver high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast. Responsibilities include: - Design, implementation, deployment and maintenance of innovative software solutions to deliver new features in performance, cost, reliability. - 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 development environment prioritizing most important and impactful projects., As an SDE in S3's Storage team, you will build the services that persist and retrieve customer data. The services you will own are the foundation of S3, and managing them at the scale of S3 provides challenging technical problems that you will solve. That scale provides leverage for your work to improve the experience of many customers, and you will tackle some of the most difficult problems in S3 head-on. 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