System Development Engineer, DynamoDB

Job  | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

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, adapt to failures, all without human intervention at a massive scale.

• 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, 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 introduce new technologies when appropriate.

• 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#, or Rust.
• Experience with Linux/Unix.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and build processes.

• Experience with distributed systems at scale.
• Knowledge of AWS networking, TCP/IP, HTTP protocols, SSL/TLS, public key cryptography, DNS endpoint load distribution, and connection‑based or request‑based load‑balancing algorithms.

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