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Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build stable, performant software for DynamoDB’s storage backend.
- Solve difficult distributed-systems problems using appropriate technologies and pragmatic design approaches.
- Rethink and rearchitect legacy systems to improve scalability, latency, availability, throughput, and flexibility.
- Write understandable, maintainable code while minimizing incidental complexity and unnecessary dependencies.
- Optimize resource usage across system hardware, databases, memory, and CPU.
- Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, peers, and senior engineers on project ideas and system improvements.
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, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
- Preferred: 3+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance and related coverage, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, mental health support, and flexible spending accounts.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the Amazon package.
- Mentorship, knowledge-sharing, career development resources, affinity groups, and inclusive culture programs.
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.