Software Development Engineer II, Amazon DocumentDB

Join us to advance the state-of-the art in database technology and serve customers all around the world.

If you are excited by the prospect of making it easier for customers to store query and analyze data at scale; if you are interested in databases operating systems distributed systems and/or developer tools; and if you are looking to work with teammates to propose ideas experiment learn and build great software we would love to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities
As a engineer on the team you will collaborate with colleagues on research prototyping software design and implementation. Our technical problems span all aspects of database systems multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) transactions query optimization data storage indexing parallel computation wire protocol translation/compilation as well as distributed systems telemetry build and deployment technology and API and UI design. You may choose to focus on an area work across areas or rotate over time. You will have the opportunity to interact with customers and to work with product managers to define product improvements. You will solve hard problems grow your skills and mentor others along the way.

About the team
Our team develops Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) a fully-managed cloud database that enables customers to persist JSON documents and retrieve them with a powerful query language. We are developing new query capabilities pushing the bounds of performance driving distributed systems innovation in scalability and high availability and investing in user experience.

- 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
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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 WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually