SoftwareEngineerII,AWSDynamoDB

Want to help shape the future of one of the largest NoSQL database services on the planet? The Amazon DynamoDB team is looking for deeply technical, team-first-mentality software engineers who are willing to commit themselves to providing best in class database performance to AWS customers. DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit-millisecond performance at any scale. 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. 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. Key job 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. A day in the life As an Software Development Engineer on DynamoDB Storage, you'll own features end-to-end in the storage engine powering every DynamoDB read and write globally. Your days involve implementing changes in Java/Rust -- optimizing replication, reducing tail latency, or building new capabilities -- then validating through capacity tests across dozens of instance types. On on call (~1 week/quarter), you'll diagnose production issues across 30+ regions in real-time. You'll review teammates' code d