Amazon
Applied Scientist II, AWS DynamoDB
$143K–$193K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Jul 15, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years building models for business applications; PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
About the job
Develop and productionize models and algorithms that improve capacity utilization and data placement across the DynamoDB fleet while maintaining customer performance and availability.
What you'll do
- Identify and quantify capacity optimization opportunities and service scaling bottlenecks.
- Develop data placement approaches balancing customer experience with capacity utilization, and validate their impact with production data.
- Partner with DynamoDB teams to inform capacity and placement decisions, build production-supporting components, and address software performance and maintainability.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python or a related language, plus experience in a listed area such as algorithms and data structures, numerical optimization, or parallel and distributed computing.
Nice to have
- Experience using Unix/Linux.
- Experience in professional software development.
Pay
142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Unix/Linux
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