System Development Engineer, DynamoDB

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. The Amazon DynamoDB Networking Technologies team owns DynamoDB's border networking, ensuring low latency and high availability at massive scale.

About the role

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.

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 and enterprises depend on the scale and performance of DynamoDB to support their mission-critical workloads.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Identify technical requirements based on business goals and product direction, and translate those requirements into detailed architecture and design.
• Execute multi-engineer, cross-team projects, and mentor others on project management and prioritization.
• Deliver quality projects and features on time and on budget.
• Lead design reviews for the engineering team.
• Set and drive technical best practices for the team.
• Participate 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.
• Perform data analysis to identify opportunities to optimize our services.
• Maintain current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, and work with management and the development team to bring in new technologies when appropriate.
• Collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base.
• Create metrics, implement automation, and resolve the root cause of software defects.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Skills

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.

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.

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.

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 and parental leave.
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Pay

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