Software Engineer, DynamoDB

Position: Software Engineer, DynamoDB Performance
Description

The AWS DynamoDB team is looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to join our fast-moving observability and performance team. We create tools and data that allow Dynamo Db teams to assess, investigate and improve performance. DynamoDB is a key-value database that delivers single-digit-millisecond performance on a massive scale and incredibly high rate of requests per second. A lot of businesses, such as Disney, Dropbox, Snap, The Pokémon Company, as well as AWS and Amazon external and internal services, depend on the scale and performance of DynamoDB to support their mission-critical workloads.

You and your team have the unique perspective and visibility into the core component's performance in DynamoDB. You will build new instrumentation and metric to understand which components contribute to how much latency, and work on latency reduction efforts at every percentile. Additionally, you will drive and set the performance target for each component and continuously improves DynamoDB's capacity management model.

Utility Computing (UC)

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations - from foundational services such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS's services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you'll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key job responsibilities

Key job responsibilities

Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand 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.

A day in the life

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.

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the  preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we  encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't  followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let  it stop you from applying.

Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and  broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never  stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups  to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to  power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be  curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that  empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning  experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and  Amaze Con  conferences, inspire us to  never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth We're continuously raising our performance  bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find  endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources  here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work  should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we  strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported  in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

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

- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience

- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software…