Amazon
Software Development Engineer, DynamoDB Index and Search
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years professional software development; 2+ years design or architecture; 1+ years software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ years developing large-scale applications using a listed language; 1+ years Object Oriented Design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Design, build, and operate DynamoDB’s distributed indexing infrastructure so Global Secondary Indexes stay consistent, available, and performant as table data changes.
What you'll do
- Build and optimize index replication and lifecycle systems, including streaming, backfill, compaction, rebalancing, and recovery.
- Integrate indexing with DynamoDB storage, partitioning, replication, and query systems; improve consistency, latency, availability, and efficiency.
- Develop observability and operational tooling, and support fleet operations such as deployment safety, capacity planning, and on-call processes.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 1+ years of experience developing large-scale distributed or other listed software applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl, StorageNode, Partition Manager
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