Interested in working at one of the largest distributed NoSQL database service on the planet? Amazon DynamoDB Storage Plane team is looking for a SDE to help us deliver a multi-year plan to rearchitect DynamoDB's storage backend and operate-at-scale in our ever-growing global footprint.
As a SDE on the DynamoDB team, you will solve exciting engineering challenges in distributed systems at a massive scale. We have a multi-year plan to reinvent our storage architecture to stretch DynamoDB's fundamental capabilities in terms of performance (latency, availability, throughput) and flexibility for our customers with different types of workload. You also will be a thoughtful steward of existing systems, appropriately challenging assumptions and rearchitecting systems when necessary to allow us to scale for growth.
Engineers say DynamoDB is a technically challenging space that requires unique and innovative solutions. As a developer on the DynamoDB team, you will work with an amazing team who will help you hone your coding, design, and architectural skills. You will work with senior engineers on a daily basis, a fantastic opportunity to learn from the best and grow your career.
If you want to tackle exciting and novel engineering challenges you won't see anywhere else, join our team!
Key job responsibilities
- You solve difficult problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices.
- You work with your team to invent, design and build software that is stable and performant.
- You are proficient in a broad range of design approaches and know when it is appropriate to use them (and when it is not). Your solutions are pragmatic.
- You consider the legacy of the code you produce and write code that an SDE unfamiliar with the system can understand.
- You limit the use of short-term workarounds. You do things with the proper level of complexity the first time (or at least minimize incidental complexity).
- You create flexible software without over-engineering. You make appropriate trade-offs, re-use where possible, and are judicious about introducing dependencies.
- You are efficient with resource usage (e.g., system hardware, database, memory/CPU, etc.)
- You work on project ideas with customers, stakeholders, and peers
About the team
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