Software Development Engineer, Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Capacity Optimization

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Capacity Optimization in Boston, United States. It pays $144k-$194k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Build distributed systems and cloud applications to manage EBS capacity and server fleets at massive scale.

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Join Amazon Web Services (AWS) and help us optimize of one of the world's largest cloud fleets. We are seeking a software development engineer for the Elastic Block Storage (EBS) Capacity Engineering team to build distributed systems, Agentic solutions, and Web applications that manage EBS's fleet of servers powering some of the world's largest websites and cloud services. EBS is the solid state drive for the Internet. You will help design, build, and operate software services that touch every AWS data center in the world. We want your help to optimize EBS on hand capacity allocation plans and improve availability for all customers, while aiming to up fleet utilization at scale.

As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you will own the full lifecycle of software that manages EBS's server fleet in real time. You will build and extend our server allocation service — the system that decides which EBS servers go to which pools, orchestrates server migrations and retirements, and ensures capacity is correctly structured to serve customer workloads. Your algorithms will directly determine whether customers can create storage when they need it, across every AWS region in the world. You will partner with engineers inside and outside the EBS organization to integrate our services with capacity planning, provisioning, and fleet health systems.

You will have a leadership role within your team to shape technical direction and continuously improve how we build and deliver software. We value strong owners who are excited to solve
hard problems at massive scale and put their stamp on the future of the cloud.

Our team works together to provide work/life balance for all team members. We recognize that the circumstances of our team members vary, and we balance work across the team so that we’re all able to maintain high standards on behalf of our customers, while at the same time allowing for rich and happy personal lives.

In AWS, if you build it, you own it. EBS is a highly available 24x7 worldwide service requiring dedicated support from our engineering teams. We pride ourselves on a high level of ownership in the work we do. This means we hold a high bar for test automation, verification processes, design and code reviews to ensure that our systems meet the exacting standards our customers demand. We maintain a regular on-call rotation across our teams with engineers and managers all taking part to resolve the inevitable issues that arise. We work hard to minimize getting paged in the middle of the night as we recognize that a well-rested employee is a productive employee.

Upon joining EBS, every employee is paired with a peer buddy who will help you to quickly come up to speed in understanding the technology we’re building, the tools we use and the business problems we’re trying to solve. We hire exceptional people and we recognize the importance of coaching others. We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, and job level. On our internal “Broadcast” video streaming website, you’ll find countless presentations by some of the brightest minds in computing discussing solutions to many of the exciting problems we’re solving in AWS today with new live-streaming videos added every week.

Come help us move EBS capacity management to the next level!

Key job responsibilities
Design and develop highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and efficient distributed systems to power AWS services. Author code that is logically correct, efficient, easily extensible, and well tested.

Deliver software features and improvements to major portions of our team’s software. This is not just new software but often includes refactoring work.

Write clear, concise design documents to communicate technical solutions working backwards from customers' problems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers and other engineers, to define and implement technical solutions that meet business requirements.

Perform code reviews, provide technical guidance, and mentor junior engineers to help them grow their skills.

Proactively influence technical decisions for both your own feature work and your peers so that we make the right technical investments. Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices, and proactively introduce new ideas and innovations to the team.

Contribute actively to daily team meetings and our software lifecycle processes. Track your work autonomously and deliver results.

Be active in operational support for our team, and ensure that the root causes of operational issues are identified and resolved. You don’t settle for the status quo, and routinely identify and execute on opportunities to improve our team’s operations.

A day in the life
As a Software Engineer on the EBS Capacity Engineering team, your day will involve joining agile meetings, authoring design documents that work backward from customer problems, writing code and reviewing your peers’ code, and ensuring we maintain AWS’s high operational standard and quality of service at all times. Currently, our services are written in Java, Kotlin, Typescript, Python, and React.

Our team is primarily located in Boston (Seaport), which is one of EBS’s largest locations. We enjoy monthly happy hours and team lunches to ensure we have fun while we work hard to invent the future of the cloud.

About the team
Why AWS: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Diverse Experiences: Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture: Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth: We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, MA, Boston - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Software Development Engineer, Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Capacity Optimization at Amazon rates 30 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Software Development Engineer, Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Capacity Optimization is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The listed salary is $144k-$194k a year.
The role is based in US, MA, Boston.
The job was posted on July 16, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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