SDE II DynamoDB — Scale Global, Low-Latency DB

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Sign-on payments

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon DynamoDB is seeking a deeply technical software development engineer to push the product further in a scalable, distributed environment. You will own everything from requirements to operations, mentoring, and continuous improvement, designing large-scale services and ensuring low latency.

You will work with senior and principal engineers, translate complex requirements into architecture, participate in design reviews, and deliver features on time.

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
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large‑scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 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, 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

3+ years software development

Object Oriented Design

Java C++ C#

Distributed systems design

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Amazon DynamoDB is seeking a deeply technical software development engineer to push the product further in a scalable, distributed environment. You will own everything from requirements to operations, mentoring, and continuous improvement, designing large-scale services and ensuring low latency.

You will work with senior and principal engineers, translate complex requirements into architecture, participate in design reviews, and deliver features on time.