Senior SDE: Global-Scale Distributed Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon DynamoDB Senior Software Development Engineer is sought to drive design and implementation of distributed systems at global scale. You will own end-to-end ownership, mentor engineers, and deliver high-performance services handling massive traffic across machines.

The role emphasizes technical excellence, architecture, and leadership, with opportunities to influence DynamoDB's evolution in a fast‑paced AWS environment. Relevant AWS culture and preferences apply.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 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.

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

Non-internship software dev experience

Programming in at least one language

Lead design/architecture

Mentor / tech lead experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Amazon DynamoDB Senior Software Development Engineer is sought to drive design and implementation of distributed systems at global scale. You will own end-to-end ownership, mentor engineers, and deliver high-performance services handling massive traffic across machines.

The role emphasizes technical excellence, architecture, and leadership, with opportunities to influence DynamoDB's evolution in a fast‑paced AWS environment. Relevant AWS culture and preferences apply.