Easter Seals Jobs

Description

The AWS DynamoDB team is looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to join our energetic and fast-moving observability and scaling team. We build and manage a highly scalable, distributed key-value database service and focus on the hard problems so customers can focus on their business. Many of the world's fastest growing businesses depend on the scale and performance of DynamoDB to support their mission-critical workloads. DynamoDB is a key-value database that delivers single-digit-millisecond performance on a massive scale and incredibly high rate of requests per second. A lot of businesses, such as Disney, Dropbox, Snap, The Pokémon Company, as well as AWS and Amazon external and internal services, depend on the scale and performance of DynamoDB to support their mission-critical workloads.

You and your team have the unique perspective and visibility into the core component's performance in DynamoDB. You will build new instrumentation and metric to understand which components contribute to how much latency, and work on latency reduction efforts at every percentile. Additionally, you will drive and set the performance target for each component and continuously improves DynamoDB's capacity management model.

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Key job responsibilities

• Solid understanding of software and system designs

• Build the toolings to observe per-customer and per-component performance

• Deep dive and continuously improve performance to ensure superior customer experience

• Scale distributed systems with optimal balance between performance and cost

• Automate and improve repetitive operational processes

About the team

You will work with our experienced Senior and Principle Engineers and have the opportunity mentor junior engineers. If you want to work in a deeply technical space and excited about huge impact, this role is engaging, challenging, and full of opportunities to learn and grow.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

• 3+ years of contributing to new and current systems architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.