Job Description

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

Job Tags

Full time, Internship,

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