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Software Engineer, DynamoDB Performance

Amazon· Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
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USA, WA, Seattle$143.7k - $194.4kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Software Development Engineer role on the AWS DynamoDB observability and performance team. Build instrumentation and metrics to understand latency across DynamoDB components, drive performance targets, and improve capacity management. Collaborate across teams to design, implement, test, and maintain software to enhance service performance, durability, cost, and security.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
  • Create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects.
  • 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.

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 applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
  • 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Skills

Required:Software developmentDesign patterns / ArchitectureObject Oriented Design

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
  • EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • RSUs and sign-on payments as part of Amazon compensation package
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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