Staff DynamoDB & Cloud Data Engineer (Multi-Region)

Solvd, Inc.

United States

Remote

USD 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Solvd, Inc. is a rapidly growing AI-native consulting firm delivering enterprise transformation across cloud, data, software engineering, and AI.

We are migrating a tier-1 US payments platform to a multi-region architecture and are hiring multiple Database Engineers to implement DynamoDB replication, failover, and operational tooling. You will work under the Principal Database Architect, building cross-region replication with DynamoDB Global Tables, codifying infrastructure in Terraform or CDK,

Qualifications

8+ years in production database engineering on AWS.
Hands-on experience with DynamoDB and multiple databases (Aurora MySQL, Cassandra, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, Neptune).
Experience with cross-region replication in production using DynamoDB Global Tables and managing failover scenarios.
Strong Terraform or CDK skills and ability to build multi-region modules.

Responsibilities

Implement and operate cross-region replication using DynamoDB Global Tables with high availability and DR.
Codify infrastructure in Terraform or CDK.
Build observability layer for replication health using Datadog; rely on CloudWatch baseline.
Write and execute failover/failback runbooks and run game-days to meet RTO/RPO targets.
Implement KMS cross-account replication and IAM/KMS strategies for region-local dependencies.
Develop CDC pipelines (DMS, DynamoDB Streams, Kafka Connect, Debezium) and validate data integrity during cutover.
Collaborate with application engineers on connection-string abstraction, retries, and graceful degradation during region failover.
Produce design docs and runbooks for client handover.