Senior Distributed Systems Engineer — Global-Scale DynamoDB

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to help drive the next phase of innovation for DynamoDB. This hands-on role requires end-to-end ownership of highly scalable distributed systems and solving hard problems at global scale.

You will design, implement and mentor, working with Principal engineers to raise the technical bar across the team and deliver low-latency services for millions of customers worldwide.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

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.

Skills

Non-internship software development

Mentor / tech lead

Architecture design

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to help drive the next phase of innovation for DynamoDB. This hands-on role requires end-to-end ownership of highly scalable distributed systems and solving hard problems at global scale.

You will design, implement and mentor, working with Principal engineers to raise the technical bar across the team and deliver low-latency services for millions of customers worldwide.