Sr. Software Dev Engineer, DynamoDB

Want to shape the future of a NoSQL database service that supports mission-critical workloads operating at more than 20 million requests per second?

Let's take its speed and efficiency to the next level!

Amazon 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 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 workloads.

On the DynamoDB team, you will see the impact your work has on the world.

The Request Router team’s charter is to provide a service that allows DynamoDB customers to connect to DynamoDB endpoints in all regions seamlessly and securely, authenticate and authorize customer requests and route requests to the storage end point based on the data in the request with high availability, scalability and low latency.

The team’s charter also includes providing the best customer experience in creating, managing and accessing DynamoDB resources (tables and indexes) using DynamoDB APIs.

As a software development engineer on the DynamoDB Request Router team, you will help evolve the existing architecture into a next-generation, high-performance system that customers will use to access data even faster and operate at scale more efficiently.

DynamoDB engineers say DynamoDB is a technically challenging space that requires unique and innovative solutions. As a member of this team, you will solve the hardest challenges in distributed systems.

You will help lead an amazing team of intelligent individuals to deliver results that make our customers' experience even better.

You will interact with senior SDEs and principal engineers, and they will help you take your design and architectural skills to the next level.

Our systems must remain highly available, scalable, and efficient. We can't get away with two out of three. You will design systems that adhere to these tenets and mentor junior engineers to do the same.

You will be a thoughtful steward of existing systems, appropriately challenging assumptions and rearchitecting systems when necessary to allow us to scale for growth.

If you want to test your limits and tackle technical challenges you won't find anywhere else, join our team!

Key job responsibilities

Identifying technical requirements based on business goals and product direction, and translating those requirements into detailed architecture and design.

Executing multi-engineer, cross-team projects, and mentoring others on project management and prioritization.

Delivering quality projects and features on time and on budget.

Participating 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.

Performing data analysis to identify opportunities to optimize our services.

Maintaining current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, and working with management and the development team to bring in new technologies when appropriate.

About the team

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally.

We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.

Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Mentorship & Career Growth

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 based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Key job responsibilities

You solve difficult problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.

You work with your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant.

You are proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when it is appropriate to use them (and when it is not).

Your solutions are pragmatic.

You consider the legacy of the code you produce and write code that an SDE unfamiliar with the system can understand.

You limit the use of short-term workarounds. You do things with the proper level of complexity the first time (or at least minimize incidental complexity).

You create flexible software without over-engineering. You make appropriate trade-offs, re-use where possible, and are judicious about introducing dependencies.

You are efficient with resource usage (e.g., system hardware, database, memory / CPU, etc.)

You work on project ideas with customers, stakeholders, and peers

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
30+ days ago