Software Dev Engineer, DynamoDB Storage Platform

Interested in working at one of the largest distributed NoSQL database service on the planet? Amazon DynamoDB Storage Engine is looking for a SDE to help us deliver a multi-year plan to rearchitect DynamoDB's storage backend and operate-at-scale in our ever-growing global footprint.

The Storage Platform team is the foundational team of DynamoDB and owns the data plane software stack for the Storage service. We simplify customer's ability to access and manage their data whilst ensuring that requests are served at single digit millisecond latency at any scale. We help keep customer data secure, actively raise the bar on availability, lower latency and improve DynamoDB Storage's price performance.

As a SDE on the DynamoDB team, you will solve exciting engineering challenges in distributed systems at a massive scale. We have a multi-year plan to reinvent our storage architecture to stretch DynamoDB's fundamental capabilities in terms of performance (latency, availability, throughput) and flexibility for our customers with different types of workload. You also will be a thoughtful steward of existing systems, appropriately challenging assumptions and rearchitecting systems when necessary to allow us to scale for growth.

Engineers say DynamoDB is a technically challenging space that requires unique and innovative solutions. As a developer on the DynamoDB team, you will work with an amazing team who will help you hone your coding, design, and architectural skills. You will work with senior engineers on a daily basis, a fantastic opportunity to learn from the best and grow your career.

If you want to tackle exciting and novel engineering challenges you won't see anywhere else, join our team!

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Work/Life Balance

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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

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

- 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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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