Sr. Software Engineer, DynamoDB

Job summary

DESCRIPTION Join the DynamoDB Capacity and Customer Entitlement (CCE) team and help scale one of the world's largest distributed database services, managing massive global infrastructure across AWS regions. As an SDE II, you'll design and build production systems that optimize capacity planning and fleet scaling for DynamoDB's infrastructure, directly impacting millions of customers worldwide.

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Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• PREFERRED
• 5+ 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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
• Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
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• The base salary range for this position is listed below.
• Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Responsibilities

• As an SDE II, you'll design and build production systems that optimize capacity planning and fleet scaling for DynamoDB's infrastructure, directly impacting millions of customers worldwide.
• You'll work on challenging distributed systems problems, building automated scaling algorithms, capacity management
• As a Software Development Engineer III on the DynamoDB Capacity and Customer Entitlement team, you will:
• Set engineering direction for the team
• Own the full software development lifecycle, from design documents through implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support for capacity automation projects
• Build automated workflows that process customer capacity requests, achieving high auto-approval rates while optimizing DynamoDB's infrastructure investment
• Develop integration points across DynamoDB's architecture, gaining deep systems understanding from load balancing through storage and replication
• Create monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions that provide visibility into capacity health, utilization patterns, and optimization opportunities across global infrastructure
• Participate in on-call rotations, resolve operational issues with long-term fixes, and drive continuous improvement initiatives
• Partner with DynamoDB service teams, product managers, and leadership to align technical solutions with business objectives
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and design discussions while developing best practices for leveraging AI coding

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