Applied Scientist II, AWS DynamoDB

Key job responsibilities

• Identify capacity usage optimization opportunities across the DynamoDB fleet.
• Quantify the customer and cost impact of each opportunity.
• Model the scaling bottlenecks of the service and characterize how they constrain placement and utilization.
• Develop data placement approaches that balance customer experience (latency, availability, throughput headroom) against optimal capacity utilization.
• Partner with the DynamoDB performance team to incorporate your inputs into capacity profile decisions and placement policy.
• Validate impact with production data.
• Build components that integrate directly into production systems or that directly support the large systems making placement and capacity decisions.
• Scrutinize the performance of your algorithms and software during implementation. Resolve root causes and leave systems easier to maintain.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of building models for business application experience
• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Unix/Linux
• Experience in professional software development