Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Sr Software Dev Engineer , S3 Foundation
Arlington, Virginia · Senior
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$10,114 more — $178,214 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $178,214 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Description Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is storage for the Internet.
- Through the use of pioneering techniques in distributed computing, developers are able to durably store their data on Amazon's proven computing infrastructure to achieve virtually limitless storage capacity at minimal cost.
- Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Company - Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.
- Job ID: A10493595
Skills
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is storage for the Internet.
- The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.
Compensation
- $168k-$227k
Company info
- You will contribute towards our rapidly increasing scale as we expand our services to internal and external customers.
- To meet and exceed our customers' expectations, we are constantly working on software innovation, process automation, and improving cloud storage infrastructure.
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