Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS DynamoDB

Amazon is hiring a Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS DynamoDB in Seattle, United States. It pays $168k-$227k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Tools and skills the posting cites include distributed systems, performance analysis and software engineering.
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Senior Software Development Engineer to improve efficiency and build performance measurement tools for the Amazon DynamoDB stack.

distributed-systemsperformance-analysissoftware-engineeringdata-structurescloud-computing

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.

Diverse Experiences
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.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. 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.

Basic qualifications

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred qualifications

- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience creating reports, interpreting metrics and driving overall insights or analysis
- Knowledge of big data businesses and technical concepts

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. 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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

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Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS DynamoDB at Amazon rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS DynamoDB is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The listed salary is $168k-$227k a year.
The role is based in US, WA, Seattle.
The job was posted on September 23, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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