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# Software Development Engineer, DynamoDB

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Databases, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, NoSQL, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Alwayson
- **Published:** November 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/software-development-engineer-dynamodb-seattle-wa--3e5c688d-9bf7-40e2-82e0-de5f363c7c3e

## About the Role

Software Development, Software Engineering, NoSQL, Software Engineering, Business Growth, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Computing, Distributed Computing, Team Player, Systems Engineering

## Description

Want to help shape the future of one of the largest NoSQL database services on the planet?

The Amazon DynamoDB team is looking for deeply technical, team-first-mentality full stack software engineers who are willing to commit themselves to our goal to grow the business 10 times over the next 2 years.

DynamoDB is a key-value 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. Many of the world"s fastest growing businesses, such as Lyft, Airbnb, and Redfin, as well as enterprises, such as Samsung, Toyota, and Capital One, depend on the scale and performance of DynamoDB to support their mission-critical workloads.

DynamoDB engineers are constantly challenged to think of unique and innovative solutions. The quality bar is high. As an engineer here, you will work on the hardest engineering problems in distributed systems at a massive scale and on multiple dimensions. You will exercise your intellectual curiosity, work with motivated teams of sharp individuals, and get insightful guidance from senior and principal engineers.

You will be responsible to maintain a high bar in terms of execution, operational readiness, code and design quality. You will serve as a mentor for junior engineers and help them grow. You are comfortable working with other seasoned DynamoDB engineers and hold your ground during design and customer experience reviews.

This is a hands-on position where you will own everything from end to end: design, design reviews, implementation, code reviews, iterative feature launches, operations, mentoring, driving continuous improvement, and more., 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 also:

 * Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
 * Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions.
 * Build high-quality, secure, performant, highly available, always-on products.
 * Automate and improve repetitive operational processes.
 * Deep dive and continuously improve performance to deliver superior customer experience.
 * Scale distributed systems with optimal balance between performance and cost.