Global DynamoDB Engineer - Multi-Region, Terraform & Observability

Solvd; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Solvd is hiring multiple Database Engineers to migrate a Tier-1 US payments platform and implement cross-region replication using DynamoDB Global Tables. You will codify infrastructure with Terraform or CDK, build an observability layer with Datadog and CloudWatch, and author failover/runbooks for RTO/RPO targets.

You’ll work under the Principal Database Architect, collaborating with data and SRE teams to ensure data integrity and smooth cutovers during region failovers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in production database engineering on AWS.
• Deep production experience with DynamoDB and multiple DB engines.
• Experience with cross-region replication in production.
• Terraform (or CDK) expertise to build multi-region modules.
• Familiar with CDC tooling (DMS, DynamoDB Streams, Kafka Connect, Debezium).
• Linux, networking, IAM/KMS proficiency.
• Strong written communication in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Implement and operate cross-region replication using DynamoDB Global Tables, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery.
• Codify infrastructure with Terraform or CDK.
• Build observability layer for replication health using Datadog and CloudWatch.
• Author and execute failover/failback runbooks and run game-days.
• Implement KMS cross-account replication, IAM principals, and secrets strategy.
• Support data extraction from monolith to microservices; build CDC pipelines.
• Collaborate with application engineers on resilient connection strings and idempotent patterns.

Skills

8+ years production DB

DynamoDB expertise

Terraform/CDK

Cross-region replication

Observability with Datadog

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or related

Tools

DynamoDB

Aurora MySQL

Cassandra

ElastiCache

DocumentDB

Neptune

DMS

Kafka Connect

Debezium

Terraform

CDK

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

Solvd is hiring multiple Database Engineers to migrate a Tier-1 US payments platform and implement cross-region replication using DynamoDB Global Tables. You will codify infrastructure with Terraform or CDK, build an observability layer with Datadog and CloudWatch, and author failover/runbooks for RTO/RPO targets.

You’ll work under the Principal Database Architect, collaborating with data and SRE teams to ensure data integrity and smooth cutovers during region failovers.