Software Dev Engineer II, EBS Placement
Amazon · Seattle, WA · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer based in Seattle, WA. The posting calls out experience with AWS, Git, Distributed Systems, Data Structures. Compensation is listed at $143,700–$194,400 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Apr 24, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersJoin the team that powers one of AWS's most critical services - Elastic Block Store (EBS)! The EBS Placement team builds systems that optimize how millions of storage volumes are distributed across AWS's vast infrastructure. Our work directly impacts every EBS customer, from startups to the world's largest enterprises, who rely on us to serve exabytes of data and trillions of I/Os daily. We are seeking talented engineers to help evolve how we place EBS volumes on storage servers. We tackle complex technical challenges at massive scale - from optimizing storage density and improving I/O performance to ensuring data durability/availability in the face of multitude of failure modes. You'll work on distributed systems that make real-time decisions about where to place customer data while balancing multiple competing objectives including performance, availability, durability, and cost-effectiveness. What makes our team unique is the opportunity to work at the intersection of infrastructure optimization and customer experience. When you join us, you'll be part of evolving how EBS delivers storage services at unprecedented scale and configurability. We're working on exciting initiatives like building predictable performance guarantees for storage operations, developing intelligent resource modeling and simulation systems, and creating next-generation placement algorithms that will enable…