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# Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS DynamoDB

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, Integrated Development Environments, Performance Tuning, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Alwayson, Reliability of Systems
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/sr-software-development-engineer-aws-dynamodb-seattle-wa--2e52ea8f-41d8-40f4-8cbe-72c79c71c3e3

## About the Role

Software Development, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Software Engineering, Performance Metrics, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Process Improvement, Customer Experience, Performance Analysis, Team Player, Product Development

## Description

Are you passionate about performance measurement and optimization? DynamoDB Observability and Performance team is looking for a senior engineer to improve efficiency of the overall DynamoDB stack. You"ll champion software that measures performance under simulated and production workloads, ties it back to customer outcomes and identifies opportunities for improvement. You"ll push the industry boundaries to create innovative ways to identify performance bottlenecks.

Our mission is to give teams deep insights into where performance bottlenecks occur and empower them to drive improvements within their areas of ownership. In this role, you"ll work with partner teams to align on requirements and expectations, delivering solutions that empower service teams to analyze performance / latency / utilization. You"ll design and build data products that explain customer experience and show opportunities.

The team operates at the intersection of data analysis, system performance, and developer productivity. We"re building the next generation of performance analysis tools that will help DynamoDB maintain its position as a leading database service. Join us in creating solutions that directly impact the performance and reliability of systems serving millions of customers worldwide.

Key job responsibilities

Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. You'll bring a passion for innovation, data, search, analytics, and distributed systems. You'll: Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack. Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers. Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to measure, describe and improve service performance. Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.

A day in the life

As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you'll create measurement products, integrate them into SDCL, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects. You'll also: propose team priorities. Identify, design and write code for critical path. Mentor and grow junior engineers. 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.

About the team

Our team delivers together. We make bets as a team, deliver them and learn from the experience. All our mechanisms are team-centric. Together, we create culture where you can learn and teach.