Software Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

EBS is hiring in Boston!

Amazon Web Services is looking for experienced engineering leaders to help us define and build the future of computing. The AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) service delivers high performance virtualized storage "in the cloud" for EC2. Durable storage is a key building block for any application and as a member of the EBS team you'll work alongside other outstanding engineers to develop and operate one of the largest storage services in the world.

Be a founding member of a new group within EBS in Boston. As an engineer within this group you will be responsible for leading development of new features, learning and growing with other engineers, and generally improving the customer experience for one of the world's largest storage services.
Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) is a virtualized storage service that offers highly available, high performance storage for EC2. As one of the core building block of AWS, EBS has experienced phenomenal growth since inception. This is a great opportunity to work on one of the most challenging problems in the cloud, with incredibly talented teammates who know how to ship. If you are passionate about large scale distributed systems, massive data analytics, or are interested in systems and kernel programming, then EBS is the perfect place for you.

Check out the following links to find out more about the exciting work being done in Elastic Block Store.

What is EBS and what do we do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77qLAl-lRpo

AWS blog post about larger and faster EBS volumes:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-16-tb-and-20000-iops-elastic-block-store-ebs-volumes/

re:Invent 2019: Deep Dive on Amazon EBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsMWANWNoqQ

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience in Agile/SCRUM enterprise-scale software development
· Familiarity with building secure software using modern security principles
· Operating enterprise web services
· Experience with AWS services
· Knowledge of storage protocols and applications

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
· Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
· 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
· Experience with network, distributed, asynchronous, and concurrent programming
· Knowledge of operating system fundamentals (Linux or Windows)
· Strong verbal and written communication skills