Amazon
Sr.Software Dev Engineer, DDB Index and Search
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in several stated software development, programming, architecture, and software lifecycle criteria; some criteria allow a computer science degree or equivalent as an alternative.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; some basic qualifications also state a foreign equivalent or equivalent experience alternative.
About the job
Leads the design and implementation of DynamoDB search and indexing capabilities, including vector and full-text retrieval and strongly consistent global secondary indexes.
What you'll do
- Build and optimize vector, text, and hybrid search infrastructure and distributed query execution.
- Design strongly consistent indexing mechanisms and index lifecycle operations, including online backfills, maintenance, and recovery.
- Lead cross-team technical work from architecture through testing, launch, and production operations; mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development and programming experience, or the stated computer science degree alternatives.
- Experience leading design or architecture of distributed systems, databases, search infrastructure, storage engines, or comparable data platforms.
- Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and system performance.
- Experience leading technical work across engineers or teams, mentoring, and taking complex systems through production operation.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Depth in vector search, full-text retrieval, distributed indexing, consistency protocols, storage engines, or related areas.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, Rust, C++, HNSW, IVF, BM25, LSM trees
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