Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS S3 Tables

Salary: £53,000 - 93,000 per year

Requirements:

• We require 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• We require 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
• We require 5+ years of experience leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
• We require experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
• We require 2+ years of experience with Rust.
• We require experience with Apache Iceberg.
• We prefer a bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent.
• We prefer 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• We prefer Apache Iceberg committer or PMC member status.

Responsibilities:

• We collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• We design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• We work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology, and evaluate technical feasibility.
• We take feature specifications and deliver working code that is maintainable and extendable.
• We build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage and use.
• We design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• We work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Cloud
• Support
• Rust
• AI
• AI Agents
• DevOps
• EC2
• IoT
• Security
• Web

More:

We are working on Amazon S3 Tables, the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, purpose-built for storing and querying tabular data at massive scale. Our team is part of AWS Utility Computing and contributes to large-scale data management while helping shape the future of open table formats. We operate in a fast-moving environment with a growing customer base and a broad technical surface area, and we value diverse experiences, work-life harmony, inclusive team culture, mentorship, and career growth.

last updated 36 week of 2026