Senior Staff DB Engineer - Global DynamoDB

Solvd; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Solvd Inc. is hiring multiple Database Engineers to implement cross-region replication for a Tier-1 US payments platform migration. You will work under the Principal Database Architect, building multi-region DynamoDB deployments, CDC pipelines, and runbooks for failover in a regulated environment.

You will codify with Terraform or CDK, enhance observability with Datadog and CloudWatch, and partner with data/SRE teams across regions to meet RTO/RPO targets.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in production database engineering on AWS with hands-on responsibility for financial-services workloads.
• Deep production experience with DynamoDB and at least two of Aurora MySQL, Cassandra, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, Neptune, with working knowledge of two more.
• Practical experience with cross-region replication in production using DynamoDB Global Tables and handling replication conflicts, outages and delays.
• Strong Terraform (or CDK). Build multi-region modules from scratch and explain trade-offs.
• Comfort with CDC tooling (DMS, DDB Streams, Kafka Connect, Debezium) and operational gotchas.
• Linux, networking fundamentals (VPC, Transit Gateway, peering, DNS), and IAM/KMS proficiency.
• Solid written communication and ability to operate in a regulated client environment.

Responsibilities

• Implement and operate cross-region replication using DynamoDB Global Tables for multi-region data replication and DR.
• Codify everything in Terraform or CDK.
• Build the observability layer for replication health with lag metrics, checks, alarms, and runbook automation using Datadog and CloudWatch.
• Author and execute failover/failback runbooks and run game-days with AWS Fault Injection Service.
• Implement KMS cross-account replication and secrets/parameter strategy for region-local dependencies.
• Support data extraction from monolith to microservices: CDC pipelines (DMS, DynamoDB Streams, Kafka Connect, Debezium) and cutover sequencing.
• Collaborate with application engineers on connection-string abstraction, retry/idempotency, and graceful degradation during region failover.
• Write design docs and runbooks for client handover.

Skills

DynamoDB

Aurora MySQL

Cassandra

ElastiCache

DocumentDB

Neptune

Terraform

CDK

DMS

Kafka Connect

Debezium

Datadog

CloudWatch

Linux

Networking (VPC, TGW, DNS)

IAM/KMS

Cross-region replication

SQL

Tools

Terraform/CDK tooling

Datadog Monitoring

CloudWatch Metrics

DMS

Kafka Connect

Debezium

Job description

Solvd Inc. is hiring multiple Database Engineers to implement cross-region replication for a Tier-1 US payments platform migration. You will work under the Principal Database Architect, building multi-region DynamoDB deployments, CDC pipelines, and runbooks for failover in a regulated environment.

You will codify with Terraform or CDK, enhance observability with Datadog and CloudWatch, and partner with data/SRE teams across regions to meet RTO/RPO targets.