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Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement distributed index replication infrastructure for Global Secondary Indexes.
- Build and optimize the Log Propagator pipeline, including streaming, checkpointing, session management, admission control, and failure recovery.
- Develop index lifecycle mechanisms for creation, backfill, incremental updates, compaction, partition changes, rebalancing, and deletion.
- Maintain index consistency during concurrent writes, partition movement, leader elections, and failures.
- Integrate indexing infrastructure with DynamoDB storage, partitioning, replication, query-processing, and control-plane systems.
- Build availability, recovery, observability, alarming, and operational tooling for the indexing pipeline.
- Optimize replication latency, write amplification, storage efficiency, throughput, memory usage, and operating cost.
- Drive patching, deployment safety, capacity planning, and on-call operations for a Tier-1 service.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems for reliability and scaling.
- At least 1 year of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
- At least 1 year designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- 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.
- Preferred: at least 3 years covering the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, flexible spending accounts, mental health support, and an employee assistance program.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- The compensation package may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units; the role is based in Seattle, Washington.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.