Amazon
Software Dev Engineer - AWS Glacier
Full-time3+ yrsSeattle, Washington, USANot disclosedApply by 19 Oct 2026
Overview
Amazon S3 Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. It is designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and provides comprehensive Amazon S3 Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. It is designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and provides comprehensive security c
What you'll do
- Amazon S3 Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup.
- It is designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and provides comprehensive Amazon S3 Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup.
- It is designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and provides comprehensive security capabilities.
- Customers use Glacier to store data long term, while having the flexibility of retrieving their data within a few minutes (using expedited retrieval speed) or few hours (using standard or bulk retrieval speeds.) Conventional storage systems are a poor fit for this domain as they are typically optimized for speed rather than space and cost.
- Glacier's unique constraints lead to to fascinating scaling and algorithmic problems that have never been tackled at our scale.
- To meet our cost goals, we have a constant need to drive fundamentally new storage technologies in the industry and come up with innovative ways to further optimize costs.
- We are now working on the next set of major hardware and software enhancements to the service and are seeking a Software Development Engineer to join our rapidly growing team.
- As a developer on our team, you'll have the opportunity to lead the design and implementation of a distributed storage service that operates at extreme scale.
- Your design and development work would range from distributed system service development in Java, to low level systems coding that interfaces directly with hardware.
- You'll operate on the bleeding edge of innovations in the storage field, and will need to solve challenging fundamental computer science problems.
Requirements
- Practical experience with Go, Java, AWS, LLM.
- Experience level: 3+ yrs.
- Strong written and verbal communication in English.
- Comfortable working on-site in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Skills
GoJavaAWSLLMRAG