Job Title: Sr Software Dev Engineer, Amazon DynamoDB
You will have the opportunity to work on a product that can do the following:
* Access petabytes of data in single-digit milliseconds
* Replicate tables across continents
* Stream terabytes of data updates per hour continuously
* Back up hundreds of terabytes of data in seconds
* Encrypt petabytes of data with no performance degradation
About Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service that delivers single-digit-millisecond performance at any scale. It is a key-value and document database that can store petabytes of customer data and handle peaks of more than 20 million requests per second.
Impact and Opportunity
As a fast-growing service at the core of the AWS Cloud, our business and engineering decisions have widespread impact across AWS, Amazon, and beyond. Many of the world's fastest-growing businesses, such as Lyft, Airbnb, and Redfin, as well as enterprises, such as Samsung, Toyota, and Capital One, depend on the scale and performance of DynamoDB to support their mission-critical workloads.
About the Role
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 the hardest engineering problems in distributed systems at a massive scale and on multiple dimensions. You will exercise your intellectual curiosity, work with motivated teams of sharp individuals, and get insightful guidance from senior and principal engineers.
Responsibilities
This is a hands-on position in which you will own everything from end to end: requirements gathering, designs, design reviews, implementations, code reviews, incremental feature launches, operations, mentoring, and the driving of continuous improvement.
Qualifications
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
* Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
* Experience in professional, non-internship software development
* Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
* Experience in development in the last 3 years
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
* Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations