Software Development Engineer, S3 Control Plane

Salary: $77,000 - 105,000 per year Requirements:

• We require 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• We require 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling of new and existing systems.
• We require experience programming in at least one software language.
• Preferred: 3+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Preferred: a bachelors degree in computer science or an equivalent field.

• We proactively work with multiple S3 Index teams in day-to-day operations.
• We develop solutions within defined technical strategies and exercise autonomy in our work.
• We understand team architecture and make service-level technical trade-off decisions.
• We drive operational excellence across the service.
• We own the control plane services, metadata, workflows, and tools that support capacity expansion, heat management, and data durability for S3 Index.
• We help ensure customers can access and write primary keys for their S3 objects in a highly available, highly performant, and scalable manner.

• AWS
• Cloud
• Support
• DevOps
• EC2
• IoT
• Security
• Video Streaming
• Web

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We are AWS, the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, and our S3 service powers businesses around the globe. The S3 Index Control Plane team supports the development and management of storage services and related AWS offerings, with a focus on reliable, scalable, and flexible systems. We offer an inclusive team culture, mentorship and career growth, and a work/life balance that supports flexibility. This role is based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and the posted annual base salary range is 114,800 CAD, with additional compensation elements and comprehensive benefits that may include health insurance, retirement savings plans, paid time off, and other wellness resources.

last updated 42 week of 2026