DynamoDB engineers solve some of the hardest problems in distributed systems: global scale, high availability, fault tolerance, and millisecond latency at global traffic levels. You will build and evolve services that route massive volumes of customer traffic across thousands of machines, ensuring high throughput and low latency under constantly growing demand. The quality bar is exceptionally high, and the systems you build will directly power mission-critical workloads for customers worldwide.
This is a hands-on role with end-to-end ownership. You will:
- Drive technical design and architecture for complex, distributed systems
- Translate ambiguous requirements into durable, scalable solutions
- Lead implementation and deliver features that operate at global scale
- Own operational excellence, monitoring, and continuous improvement
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the team
You'll work alongside highly motivated peers and receive mentorship from Principal and Senior Principal Engineers, while being expected to independently make high-judgment technical decisions.
If you are excited about building resilient, high-performance distributed systems and influencing the technical direction of one of AWS's flagship services, we'd love to talk.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ 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
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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually