DynamoDB Scale Engineer — Distributed Systems Pro

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon DynamoDB engineers are constantly challenged to think of unique and innovative solutions. The quality bar is high, and you will work on the hardest engineering problems in distributed systems at a massive scale across thousands of machines.

You will own requirements gathering, designs, design reviews, implementations, code reviews, iterative feature launches, and operations, with mentorship from senior and principal engineers.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, Develop, Manage, optimize, and re-imagine highly distributed, large-scale services.
• Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.
• Be hands on. Work with others on the engineering team to manage day-to-day development activities, participate in designs, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation.
• Deliver quality features on-time and on-budget. Execute against project plans and delivery commitments.
• Contribute to the intellectual property of Amazon through patents and external publications.

Skills

Software development experience

System design

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon DynamoDB engineers are constantly challenged to think of unique and innovative solutions. The quality bar is high, and you will work on the hardest engineering problems in distributed systems at a massive scale across thousands of machines.

You will own requirements gathering, designs, design reviews, implementations, code reviews, iterative feature launches, and operations, with mentorship from senior and principal engineers.