Amazon Web Services (AWS) · 8 hours ago
Senior System Development Engineer, DynamoDB
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$136K/yr - $235K/yrAmazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. The Senior System Development Engineer will be responsible for building and maintaining high-performance networking systems for DynamoDB, ensuring low latency and high availability while solving complex technical challenges.
ConsultingDevOpsInformation TechnologySoftwareWeb Development
Responsibilities
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
Identifying technical requirements based on business goals and product direction, and translating those requirements into detailed architecture and design
Executing multi-engineer, cross-team projects, and mentoring others on project management and prioritization
Delivering quality projects and features on time and on budget
Leading design reviews for the engineering team. Setting and driving technical best practices for the team
Participating in the full lifecycle of day-to-day development activities, including prioritization, task breakdowns, writing design documents, design and code reviews, implementation, deployment, and operations
Performing data analysis to identify opportunities to optimize our services
Maintaining current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, and working with management and the development team to bring in new technologies when appropriate
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
Qualification
Required
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
Scaling and operating large cloud-server fleets
AWS networking
Python, Java, and Ruby
TCP/IP and HTTP protocols
SSL/TLS/public key cryptography
DNS endpoint load distribution
Connection-based and request-based load-balancing algorithms
Preferred
Experience with distributed systems at scale
Benefits
Medical
Financial
Other benefits
Company
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing.
Founded in 2002
10001+ employees
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Funding
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