Principal Software Engineer, Amazon DynamoDB
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 17, 2026. First seen by Alion on Feb 23, 2026. Amazon scores A on the Alion truth index.
Join Amazon DynamoDB - the fully managed NoSQL database service that powers the world's most demanding applications with single-digit-millisecond performance at any scale. As a cornerstone of AWS Cloud, DynamoDB serves industry leaders like Lyft, Airbnb, Samsung, Toyota, and Capital One, enabling their mission-critical workloads and innovative customer experiences.
Dynamo DB is a part of AWS Utility Computing (UC) which 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.
Key job responsibilities
You are passionate about designing large scale and resilient storage systems, innovating and supporting new technological architectures. You’ll think globally when building systems, ensuring we build high performing, scalable systems that fit well together. We are looking for pragmatic visionaries who can translate customer needs into workable technology solutions. Your expertise is deep and broad; you’re hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs. As a Principal Engineer on our team, you will work with leaders across database services organization to define our business and architecture vision. You will balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices. You will own the architecture, existing and future, for the DynamoDB's control plane, metadata and continuous data protection capabilities. You will share your updates with AWS leadership, get buy-in, and work with all stakeholder teams to maintain industry leadership. You will be the default mentor for all engineers on the team, establish and demand best practices through your engineering leadership. You will immerse yourself in your team’s entire software development lifecycle to have a hands-on impact. You’ll strive for simplicity and demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment. You will take on the most challenging design and development problems personally and lead by example to delivering exceptional results that reflect a keen understanding of our customers’ needs and our business vision
The ideal candidate combines technical depth in distributed systems and databases with strong leadership abilities. They will be at the forefront of solving complex challenges in:
- Hyper-scale distributed systems
- Global data replication and consistency
- High-availability architecture
Basic qualifications
- 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience creating architectural vision
- Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture)
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
Preferred qualifications
- Experience designing and developing large-scale, distributed and high-traffic applications with NoSQL storage;
- Experience with AWS services
- Publications or speaking at technical conferences
- NoSQL expertise.
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