Amazon · 1 month ago
System Development Engineer, DynamoDB
Seattle, Washington, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$116K/yr - $201K/yrAmazon is seeking a System Development Engineer for its DynamoDB Networking Technologies team, which is responsible for ensuring low latency and high availability for DynamoDB's border networking. The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining innovative software solutions while collaborating across diverse teams to solve complex technical problems at scale.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
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 in automating, deploying, and supporting 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
Preferred
Experience with distributed systems at scale
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Founded in 1994
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
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CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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