System Development Engineer, Amazon

Job ID: 3133285 | Amazon.com Services LLC
Imagine a system that stores petabytes of customer data and handles peaks of more than 20 million requests per second, responding in single-digit milliseconds. Imagine the number of servers required to power such a system. Now imagine the high‑performance network infrastructure required to ensure such a system operates with near‑perfect availability at this low latency.
The Amazon DynamoDB Networking Technologies team owns DynamoDB's border networking, ensuring low latency and high availability. They also must be fault tolerant: network failures are inevitable, but our systems ensure that DynamoDB customers see no impact when failures occur.
We are looking for an experienced systems development engineer who is interested in building systems that balance load, manage heat, and adapt to failures, all without human intervention at a massive scale.
DynamoDB is a key‑value and document database that delivers single‑digit‑millisecond performance at any scale. As a fast‑growing service at the core of the AWS Cloud, our business and engineering decisions have widespread impact across AWS, Amazon, and beyond. Scaling and operating large cloud‑server fleets
AWS networking
Python, Java, and Ruby
SSL/TLS/public key cryptography
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Bring a passion for innovation, data, search, analytics, and distributed systems.
Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
Build high‑quality, highly available, always‑on products.
Execute multi‑engineer, cross‑team projects, mentoring others on project management and prioritization.
Deliver quality projects and features on time and on budget.
Lead design reviews for the engineering team, setting and driving technical best practices.
Participate in the full lifecycle of day‑to‑day development activities, including prioritization, task breakdowns, design documents, code reviews, implementation, deployment, and operations.
Perform data analysis to identify opportunities to optimize our services.
Maintain current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, and bring in new technologies when appropriate.
Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
Work cross‑functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
Work in a startup‑like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff.
We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge‑sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one‑on‑one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge‑sharing, mentorship and other career‑advancing resources here to help you develop into a better‑rounded professional.
Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large‑scale infrastructure
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
Experience with Linux/Unix
Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.