Amazon Senior Software Development Engineer DynamoDB 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

565112405

DynamoDB engineers are constantly challenged to think of unique and innovative solutions. The quality bar is high. As an engineer here, you will work on building services that operate at a massive scale and are responsible for routing large amount of data. Our code is responsible for routing customer requests in the most efficient way across thousands of machines, while providing high throughput and low-latency experience. You will exercise your intellectual curiosity, work with motivated teams of sharp individuals, and get insightful guidance from principal and senior principal engineers.Key job responsibilities
- Design, build, operate, optimize, and continuously iterate on the design of highly distributed, large-scale services.
- Translate requirements into detailed solution architectures and technical plans.
- Own technical decision making in your space.
- Scale distributed systems with optimal balance between performance and cost.
- Automate and improve repetitive operational processes.
A day in the life- Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.- Work in a startup-like environment, where you always keep your focus on the most important problems.

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent