Software Development Engineer II, AWS DynamoDB Web Service

The AWS DynamoDB team is looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to join our fast-moving observability and scaling team. We build and manage a highly scalable, distributed key-value database service and focus on the hard problems so customers can focus on their business.

• Solid understanding of software and system designs
• Build the tooling to observe per-customer and per-component performance
• Deep dive and continuously improve performance to ensure superior customer experience
• Scale distributed systems with optimal balance between performance and cost
• Automate and improve repetitive operational processes
• Collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to impact the global customer base
• 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
• Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, 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

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non‑internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

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