Senior System Development Engineer, DynamoDB

Description

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. The Amazon Dynamo

DB Networking Technologies team owns the border networking that ensures low latency and high availability for this high‑scale system. The systems we own are fault tolerant: when network failures occur, customers see no impact.

• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions that transform service performance, durability, cost and security.
• Build high‑quality, highly available, always‑on products.
• Research implementations that deliver the best possible customer experiences.
• Identify technical requirements from business goals and translate them 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 and set technical best practices.
• Participate in the full lifecycle of day‑to‑day development activities, including prioritization, task breakdown, design documents, code reviews, implementation, deployment and operations.
• Perform data analysis to identify opportunities to optimize services.

• Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large‑scale infrastructure.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust.
• Experience with Linux/Unix.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes.

• Experience with distributed systems at scale.

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