Software Development Engineer II, AWS DynamoDB Web Service
About the role
The AWS DynamoDB team is looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to join our fast-moving observability and scaling team. We build and manage a highly scalable, distributed key-value database service and focus on the hard problems so customers can focus on their business. Many of the world's fastest growing businesses depend on the scale and performance of DynamoDB to support their mission-critical workloads. DynamoDB is a key-value database that delivers single-digit-millisecond performance on a massive scale and incredibly high rate of requests per second. A lot of businesses, such as Disney, Dropbox, Snap, The Pokémon Company, as well as AWS and Amazon external and internal services, depend on the scale and performance of DynamoDB to support their mission-critical workloads. You and your team have the unique perspective and visibility into the core component's performance in DynamoDB. You will build new instrumentation and metric to understand which components contribute to how much latency, and work on latency reduction efforts at every percentile. Additionally, you will drive and set the performance target for each component and continuously improves DynamoDB's capacity management model.
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
- Solid understanding of software and system designs
- Build the toolings to observe per-customer and per-component performance
- Deep dive and continuously improve performance to ensure superior customer experience
- Scale distributed systems with optimal balance between performance and cost
- Automate and improve repetitive operational processes
- 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
- Create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects
- 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
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 senior 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.
Basic qualifications
- 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
Preferred qualifications
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Pay
USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually. 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.
Benefits
- 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
- Parental leave