Senior Software Engineer, DynamoDB & Distributed Systems

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 144,000 - 194,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle is seeking a deeply technical software engineer to help shape DynamoDB, one of the world's largest NoSQL database services. You will own end-to-end design, implementation, and optimization to deliver single-digit-millisecond performance at scale.

You will work with talented teams across AWS, mentor others, and tackle hard distributed-systems challenges while maintaining a strong bias for customer impact and reliability.

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.
Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end software development lifecycle from requirements to operations.
Design reviews, implementation, code reviews, and incremental feature launches.
Mentor teammates and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Software development

System design

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Job description

You will work with talented teams across AWS, mentor others, and tackle hard distributed-systems challenges while maintaining a strong bias for customer impact and reliability.

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