Senior Systems Engineer, High-Scale Networking

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 151,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle, WA, is seeking a senior software development engineer to design and optimize distributed systems that power DynamoDB's high-scale networking.

You will tackle load balancing, fault tolerance, and low-latency data paths at petabyte scale, with minimal human intervention. Collaborating across teams, you’ll implement reliable software, lead design reviews, and mentor others while shipping high-quality, always-on services.

Qualifications

• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust.
• Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure.
• Experience with Linux/Unix.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes.

Responsibilities

• Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
• Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
• Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.
• Identifying technical requirements based on business goals and product direction, and translating those requirements into detailed architecture and design.
• Executing multi-engineer, cross-team projects, and mentoring others on project management and prioritization.
• Delivering quality projects and features on time and on budget.
• Leading design reviews for the engineering team. Setting and driving technical best practices for the team.
• Participating in the full lifecycle of day-to-day development activities, including prioritization, task breakdowns, writing design documents, design and code reviews, implementation, deployment, and operations.
• Performing data analysis to identify opportunities to optimize our services.
• Maintaining current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, and working with management and the development team to bring in new technologies when appropriate.

Skills

Python

Ruby

Golang

Java

C++

C#

Rust

Linux/Unix

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle, WA, is seeking a senior software development engineer to design and optimize distributed systems that power DynamoDB's high-scale networking.

You will tackle load balancing, fault tolerance, and low-latency data paths at petabyte scale, with minimal human intervention. Collaborating across teams, you’ll implement reliable software, lead design reviews, and mentor others while shipping high-quality, always-on services.