Software Development Engineer, Elastic Block Store

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, Elastic Block Store in Vancouver, Canada. It pays CAD 115k-CAD 192k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
Tools and skills the posting cites include AWS, distributed systems and data platforms.
Level classifies it as a mid-level role.
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Design and operate a petabyte-scale telemetry and analytics platform supporting AWS cloud storage infrastructure.

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distributed-systemsdata-platformscloud-storagetelemetryobservability

Do you want to build the data platform that shows how a cloud storage service used by millions of AWS customers is behaving? As a Software Development Engineer on Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), you will design, build and operate a self-service telemetry platform that processes petabytes of data every day across every AWS Region. Engineers across EBS and AWS rely on it for both operational and analytical needs, from automated production decisions and real-time monitoring to compliance reporting, customer insights and capacity forecasting. You will own large-scale distributed systems end to end, make them more efficient at scale, and help shape how engineers and AI-powered tools access data. If you are curious about distributed systems, data platforms and cloud storage, we would like to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities
- Design, build and operate distributed systems that transform, store, query and export petabyte-scale telemetry data
- Improve cost efficiency by evolving the platform architecture, adopting new languages and technologies, and building mechanisms that keep cost under control as usage grows
- Build programmatic and AI-ready interfaces that give engineers and automated tools secure, access-controlled access to data
- Raise operational quality through monitoring, alarming, data-quality validation and automated recovery
- Partner with software engineers, data engineers and product managers across EBS to turn specific use cases into reusable platform features

A day in the life
Your day might start with a short team sync, followed by focused time on the project you lead, such as designing a new storage layout or optimizing the efficiency of the transform or query engines. Along the way, you join design brainstorms and reviews, review teammates' code and get feedback on your own, and may meet with an EBS team that wants to bring new data onto the platform to help them shape the solution. You also join an on-call rotation, typically one week about every eight weeks. When you get paged, you have runbooks and your teammates to support you, and after each page we review the steps together to prevent it from happening again or automate the response.

About the team
Our team owns the telemetry and analytics platform that EBS relies on for operational and business insight, and our vision is to be the single observability platform for EBS. Our customers are EBS engineering, data engineering and product teams, along with other AWS teams that build on EBS data. Over the next few years, we are focused on making the platform more efficient, unifying how data is transformed and queried, and making data accessible to AI-powered tools. We stay on top of new technologies and actively use AI-driven development in our daily work. We invest in fault tolerance and automation so operational load stays low, which keeps our team sustainable, frees most of our time for delivering new features, and supports a healthy work-life balance. We have a mix of experience levels and tenures, and we invest in your growth through projects that expand your scope, designs with impact across EBS, and mentorship from senior engineers.

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

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. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN, BC, Vancouver - 114,800.00 - 191,800.00 CAD annually

How we rate this

Software Development Engineer, Elastic Block Store at Amazon rates 25 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.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
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Key facts

Software Development Engineer, Elastic Block Store is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The listed salary is CAD 115k-CAD 192k a year.
The role is based in CA, BC, Vancouver.
The job was posted on October 20, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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