Amazon
Software Development Engineer , DynamoDB Index, Search and Storage
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ years designing and developing large-scale software applications; 1+ years of Object Oriented Design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Designs and builds DynamoDB’s distributed vector, full-text, and hybrid search infrastructure, from indexing and retrieval through ranking and operation.
What you'll do
- Build distributed search capabilities, including vector and full-text indexing, hybrid retrieval, and ranking.
- Design query execution and index lifecycle mechanisms, keeping search indexes synchronized with DynamoDB data.
- Optimize search quality, latency, throughput, freshness, availability, and cost at DynamoDB scale.
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 designing and developing large-scale software applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; and 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, DynamoDB
AI focus
Builds vector and hybrid search capabilities using high-dimensional embeddings, approximate nearest-neighbor retrieval, relevance ranking, and machine-learning infrastructure.
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