Principal Software Engineer, DynamoDB — Distributed Systems

Amazon; Ireland; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's DynamoDB team seeks a Principal Engineer to own the architecture of the control plane, metadata, and data protection capabilities for globally distributed storage systems.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with leaders across database services, and translate customer needs into scalable, high-availability designs that maintain AWS's industry leadership in NoSQL databases.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience creating architectural vision.
• Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture for DynamoDB's control plane, metadata and continuous data protection capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and establish best practices across the team.
• Collaborate with AWS leadership and stakeholder teams to maintain industry leadership.

Skills

Architectural vision

Distributed systems

NoSQL storage

AWS services

Tools

AWS services

Job description

Amazon's DynamoDB team seeks a Principal Engineer to own the architecture of the control plane, metadata, and data protection capabilities for globally distributed storage systems.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with leaders across database services, and translate customer needs into scalable, high-availability designs that maintain AWS's industry leadership in NoSQL databases.