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Software Development Engineer, DynamoDB Index and Search

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Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$143.7k - $194.4kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Software Development Engineer II to design, build, and operate the distributed indexing infrastructure at the heart of DynamoDB, focusing on Global Secondary Indexes, index replication, lifecycle, and performance at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement distributed index replication infrastructure that propagates base-table mutations to Global Secondary Indexes with low latency and high fidelity.
  • Build and optimize the Log Propagator pipeline, including log streaming, checkpointing, session management, admission control, and failure recovery across thousands of partitions.
  • Develop index lifecycle mechanisms covering index creation, backfill from existing table data, incremental updates, compaction, partition splits and merges, rebalancing, and deletion — all while the table continues to serve live traffic.
  • Ensure that secondary indexes remain consistent with the base table under concurrent writes, partition movements, leader elections, and failure scenarios, with well-defined freshness and consistency semantics.
  • Integrate indexing infrastructure with DynamoDB's distributed storage, partitioning, replication, and query-processing systems, including StorageNode, Partition Manager, and the control plane.
  • Design and build mechanisms for index availability and recovery, including handling degraded partitions, stuck replication sessions, and automated remediation of index lag.
  • Optimize tradeoffs among replication latency, write amplification, storage efficiency, throughput, memory usage, and operational cost across the indexing fleet.
  • Build observability, alarming, and operational tooling for the indexing pipeline — enabling rapid diagnosis and resolution of replication lag, backfill progress, and partition-level health.
  • Drive operational excellence across the indexing fleet, including patching, deployment safety, capacity planning, and on-call processes for a Tier-1 service.

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:Distributed systems designIndexing and replication pipelinesLog propagation and checkpointing
Nice to have:Storage systems integration

Benefits

  • Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including 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
  • parential leave
  • sign-on payments and RSUs as part of compensation package
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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