Senior Software Engineer — Distributed Systems at Scale

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a deeply technical software engineer for DynamoDB. You will own end-to-end design, implementation, and operation of distributed systems at massive scale, collaborating with senior engineers and mentoring others.

You will work on fully managed serverless NoSQL services, drive feature launches, and evolve the data management platform to ensure low latency and high reliability in a globally distributed environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) 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.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design, implementation, reviews, and deployment of DynamoDB features.
• Collaborate with senior/principal engineers and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable distributed systems.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive continuous improvement across the team.

Skills

Software development

Design/architecture

OO design

C#, C++, Java, Perl

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a deeply technical software engineer for DynamoDB. You will own end-to-end design, implementation, and operation of distributed systems at massive scale, collaborating with senior engineers and mentoring others.

You will work on fully managed serverless NoSQL services, drive feature launches, and evolve the data management platform to ensure low latency and high reliability in a globally distributed environment.