Applied Scientist, Amazon S3 Storage in Berlin, Deutschland; Deutschland, Europa

Job summary
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is storage for the Internet. Through the use of pioneering techniques in storage & computing, customers can reliably 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 enables customers to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere in the world. We build and run the largest commercial storage system in the world with trillions of objects and regularly serving millions of requests per second.

We’re looking for an Applied Scientist to join the team in Berlin, Germany to help us build a next generation product. The ideal candidate is excited about the incredible opportunity that cloud computing represents, and is passionate about delivering quality services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities can shift fast. You’ll make our customers’ lives better through the features and service improvements that you own and deliver, and will work with other leaders in the team to guide both the success of the Berlin office and S3 as a whole. As part of our team, you’ll be able to bring innovation and execute on new ideas that will raise the bar on what our customers can achieve with S3. You will be working with customers to design and build the technology that powers applications that you love like Airbnb, Netflix, Uber, and many more.

If this sounds like you, come join us and help AWS continue to write the cloud computing story for the industry.

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

Mentorship & Career Growth - We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, job level, etc. We can also help you find a mentor or two, because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.

Inclusive Team Culture - We have a diverse team and drive towards an inclusive culture and work environment. Our team is intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Our team members are active in Amazon’s 10+ affinity groups, sometimes known as employee resource groups, which bring employees together across businesses and locations around the world. These range from groups such as the Black Employee Network, Amazon Women and Engineering, and LGBTQ+

Ownership is central to everything we deliver at Amazon. You will own the entire lifecycle of your work from design to implementation, testing, and operations. We strive to build a collaborative work environment that lets you both broaden your impact and grow with the support of mentors and senior engineers on the team.

Creating a reliable, scalable, and flexible web service requires a deep understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. You should be somebody who enjoys working on solving complex problems, is customer-centric, and feels strongly not only about applied science to innovate on behalf of our customers. Join us and help solve a challenging set of problems in a space packed full of opportunities.

We at AWS value individual expression, respect different opinions, and work together to create a culture where each of us is able to contribute fully. Our unique backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our ability to achieve Amazon's mission of being Earth's most customer-centric company.

Key job responsibilities
· Researching, designing and developing innovative solutions to complex problems in storage systems such as S3
· Defining and executing on a research roadmap for S3. You’ll know and talk with your stakeholders on a regular basis, as well as using data and metrics to understand how your service is used, and build and deliver on a roadmap that delights our customers.
· Having fun working on ground breaking technology with people just as passionate about their work as you!



A day in the life
You will be partnering with product and engineering leaders as well as other applied scientists to define our product features, create research roadmaps to invent novel algorithms to and help design scaleable and efficient systems that implement those algorithms.

About the team
The Berlin S3 team is fun, ambitious, growing, and a great place make impact. If you’re a passionate about solving complex problems in novel ways, at the challenging scale of AWS, we’d love to hear from you.