Amazon
Software Engineer, DynamoDB Performance
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ year of software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ year developing large-scale applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 1+ year of Object Oriented Design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Build instrumentation, metrics, and software improvements to measure and reduce DynamoDB latency, set component performance targets, and improve capacity management.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain software that improves service performance, durability, cost, and security.
- Create metrics and automation to investigate component latency, reduce latency, and improve capacity management.
- Collaborate across teams through design discussions, code reviews, and technical input to business decisions.
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.
- At least 1 year of experience developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; and at least 1 year 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 experience with big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, Lucene/SOLR, or Storm/Samza.
- Experience debugging, profiling, and applying software engineering best practices in large-scale systems.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
DynamoDB, C#, C++, Java, Perl, AWS, Hadoop, Spark
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