System Development Engineer, DynamoDB

Amazon; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon DynamoDB Networking Technologies team is seeking an experienced systems development engineer to build high-scale, fault-tolerant networking systems that balance load and survive failures without human intervention. You will help ensure DynamoDB’s border networking supports single-digit millisecond latency for massive workloads.

As part of this team, you’ll work with Python, Java, Ruby, Golang, and C++ to craft scalable, highly available services, and contribute to secure, efficient, and

Qualifications

• Experience automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure.
• Proficient in Python, Java, Ruby, Golang, C++, C#, Linux/Unix and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and high-scale networking.

Responsibilities

• Solve challenging technical problems at every layer of the stack.
• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain software to improve performance, durability, cost and security.
• Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
• Research implementations to deliver optimal user experiences.
• Translate requirements into architecture and design.
• Lead multi-engineer projects and mentor others.
• Deliver projects on time and within budget.
• Participate in design reviews and establish technical best practices.
• Engage in full lifecycle activities including design docs, reviews, and operations.
• Perform data analysis to optimize services and stay current with technology.

Skills

Python

Java

Ruby

Golang

C++

C#

Linux/Unix

CI/CD pipelines

DNS endpoint load distribution

TCP/IP/HTTP

Job description

Job ID: 10505655 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Imagine a system that stores petabytes of customer data and handles peaks of more than 20 million requests per second, responding in single-digit milliseconds. Imagine the number of servers required to power such a system. Now imagine the high-performance network infrastructure required to ensure such a system operates with near-perfect availability at this low latency.

The Amazon DynamoDB Networking Technologies team owns DynamoDB's border networking, ensuring low latency and high availability. The systems we own are high scale and high performance: they must not add overhead to the extremely low latencies our customers expect. They also must be fault tolerant: network failures are inevitable, but our systems ensure that DynamoDB customers see no impact when failures occur.

We are looking for an experienced systems development engineer who is interested in building systems that balance load, manage heat, and adapt to failures, all without human intervention at a massive scale.

DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit-millisecond performance at any scale. As a fast-growing service at the core of the AWS Cloud, our business and engineering decisions have widespread impact across AWS, Amazon, and beyond. Many of the world's fastest growing businesses, such as Lyft, Airbnb, and Redfin, as well as enterprises, such as Samsung, Toyota, and Capital One, depend on the scale and performance of DynamoDB to support their mission-critical workloads.

As a member of the DynamoDB Networking Technologies team, you should have a rigorous approach to software and systems development. You should be familiar with some of the following:

• Scaling and operating large cloud-server fleets
• AWS networking
• Python, Java, and Ruby
• TCP/IP and HTTP protocols
• SSL/TLS/public key cryptography
• DNS endpoint load distribution
• Connection-based and request-based load-balancing algorithms

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key job responsibilities

Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. You’ll bring a passion for innovation, data, search, analytics, and distributed systems. You’ll also:

• 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.

A day in the life

As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you’ll create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects. You’ll also:

• Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
• Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
• Work in a startup-like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff.

About the team

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our members enjoy one‑on‑one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

About AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee‑led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Work/Life Balance

We value work‑life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge‑sharing, mentorship and other career‑advancing resources here to help you develop into a better‑round professional.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large‑scale infrastructure
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems at scale

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, WA, Seattle - 129,200.00 - 174,800.00 USD annually

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