System Development Engineer, DynamoDB

System Development Engineer, DynamoDB

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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. Imagine the number of servers required to power such a system. Now imagine the high‑performance network infrastructure required to ensure such a system operates with near‑perfect availability at this low latency.

The Amazon Dynamo

DB Networking Technologies team owns Dynamo

DB’s border networking, ensuring low latency and high availability. 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 Dynamo

DB 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 at a massive scale.

Dynamo

DB 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 Dynamo

DB to support their mission‑critical workloads.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

• 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

Our Engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a first‑hand impact on our global customer base. You’ll bring a passion for innovation, data, search, analytics, and distributed systems. You’ll also solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.

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.

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.

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…