Senior Distributed Systems Engineer — DynamoDB at Global Scale

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle, WA, is seeking a deeply technical Senior Software Development Engineer to help drive the next phase of innovation in DynamoDB. You will tackle distributed system challenges at global scale, delivering high-throughput, low-latency services that power mission-critical workloads.

You will lead technical design, mentor engineers, and own operational excellence, with mentorship from principal engineers and a focus on architecture, reliability, and scalable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build, testing, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical design and architecture for complex, distributed systems
• Translate ambiguous requirements into durable, scalable solutions
• Lead implementation and deliver features that operate at global scale
• Own operational excellence, monitoring, and continuous improvement
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the team

Skills

Software development

Mentorship

Team leadership

Architecture design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle, WA, is seeking a deeply technical Senior Software Development Engineer to help drive the next phase of innovation in DynamoDB. You will tackle distributed system challenges at global scale, delivering high-throughput, low-latency services that power mission-critical workloads.

You will lead technical design, mentor engineers, and own operational excellence, with mentorship from principal engineers and a focus on architecture, reliability, and scalable