Software Engineer II (L5), AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS)

The Elastic Block Store (EBS) organization is the hard-drive for the Internet, storing exabytes of data for millions of customers, powering some of the biggest websites and services available online.

The EBS product allows AWS customers to quickly provision and use scalable storage that meets the needs of their business.

We build scalable products that enable our customer’s businesses to grow. EBS is growing as the amount of data used by businesses that run on AWS continues to increase.

If the idea of building large distributed systems that enable Petabyte scale excites you then this is the right opportunity for you.

As an engineer, you will get the opportunity to work on large-scale distributed systems, improve availability and performance, and innovate to increase hardware resource utilization to improve costs for our customers.

The ideal candidate would possess analytical, design, problem solving skills and experience in building & operating large scale systems.

You will work closely with a tight, agile team that ships often, iterates quickly and takes pride in the product they deliver.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally.

We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.

Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work / Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life.

We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment.

We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

To learn more about EBS, see

What is EBS and what do we do?

Learn about the latest EBS offerings from re : Invent 2023 :

Learn about AWS in Adam Selipsky's 2023 re : Invent Keynote :

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Key job responsibilities

• Analyze customer needs and design solutions that keep the customer front of mind
• Design, implement, deploy, and maintain innovative and high quality distributed software solutions
• Define metrics and monitoring procedures to provide visibility in how your software is behaving
• Document software solutions and operational procedures
• Work in an agile development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff
• Mentor junior software development engineers

A day in the life

You will collaborate with and learn from the industry's best minds to solve interesting and challenging problems at an enormous scale on a daily basis.

This collaboration extends beyond just the team in EBS. You will have the opportunity to work with many other teams in AWS to build a secure, performant, and reliable system.

About the team

The AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) organization delivers high-performing virtualized storage in the cloud for Amazon Web Services.

This is a foundational AWS service on which most other AWS services depend. Our team's software sits at the heart of all our customers' disk I / O.

More specifically our team is responsible for the networking and interconnectivity of various aspects of one of the biggest distributed systems in the universe.

Being at the heart of much of what AWS does presents numerous opportunities for growth along any engineering vector you are interested in.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ 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
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