Software Engineer II, AWS DynamoDB

Want to help shape the future of one of the largest NoSQL database services on the planet

The Amazon DynamoDB team is looking for deeply technical team-first-mentality software engineers who are willing to commit themselves to providing best in class database performance to AWS customers.

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 worlds 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.

DynamoDB engineers are constantly challenged to think of unique and innovative solutions. The quality bar is high. As an engineer here you will work on the hardest engineering problems in distributed systems at a massive scale and on multiple dimensions. You will exercise your intellectual curiosity work with motivated teams of sharp individuals and get insightful guidance from senior and principal engineers.

Key job responsibilities
This is a hands-on position in which you will own everything from end to end: requirements gathering designs design reviews implementations code reviews incremental feature launches operations mentoring and the driving of continuous improvement.

A day in the life
As an Software Development Engineer on DynamoDB Storage youll own features end-to-end in the storage engine powering every DynamoDB read and write globally. Your days involve implementing changes in Java/Rust -- optimizing replication reducing tail latency or building new capabilities -- then validating through capacity tests across dozens of instance types. On on call (1 week/quarter) youll diagnose production issues across 30 regions in real-time. Youll review teammates code daily contribute to designs spanning millions of nodes and ship through rigorous phased rollouts. The work is deeply technical exabyte-scale and directly impacts DynamoDBs durability guarantees.

About the team
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- 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
- 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

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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 WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually