SDE II: DynamoDB Global Secondary Indexing & Replication

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a Software Development Engineer II for DynamoDB indexing. You will design, build, and operate distributed indexing infrastructure to keep Global Secondary Indexes in sync with base tables at scale.

The role touches partitioning, replication, and query-processing systems, delivering predictable latency and cost efficiency. You will shape the index replication pipeline, lifecycle mechanics, and recovery strategies while supporting near-real-time

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software applications.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement distributed index replication infrastructure with low latency and high fidelity.
• Build and optimize the Log Propagator pipeline across thousands of partitions.
• Develop index lifecycle mechanisms including backfill, compaction, partitioning, and recovery.
• Ensure secondary indexes remain consistent with base tables under concurrent operations.
• Integrate indexing infra with DynamoDB's storage, partitioning, replication, and query systems.
• Design and build index availability and recovery mechanisms, handling degraded partitions and lag.
• Optimize tradeoffs among replication latency, storage efficiency, throughput, memory usage, and cost.
• Build observability, alarming, and tooling for the indexing pipeline and lag resolution.
• Drive operational excellence including patching, deployment safety, capacity planning, and on-call processes.

Skills

3+ years professional software dev

Distributed systems design

C++/Java/Perl experience

OO design

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/数学

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a Software Development Engineer II for DynamoDB indexing. You will design, build, and operate distributed indexing infrastructure to keep Global Secondary Indexes in sync with base tables at scale.

The role touches partitioning, replication, and query-processing systems, delivering predictable latency and cost efficiency. You will shape the index replication pipeline, lifecycle mechanics, and recovery strategies while supporting near-real-time