Software Development Engineer, ElastiCache

Amazon • Seattle, WA, United States • Posted June 03, 2026

Location Seattle, WA
Job Type Full-time
Category other-general
Posted June 03, 2026
Description
This is an opportunity to join one of AWS's most foundational and high-impact engineering teams — the In-Memory Computing Platform team, part of Amazon ElastiCache. We build the next-generation, high-performance in-memory distributed data storage platform that powers some of the world's most demanding real-time applications. Our work sits at the intersection of distributed systems, database internals, and cloud-scale infrastructure, and it directly shapes how millions of AWS customers build low-latency, high-throughput applications.

If you've ever found yourself deep in a conversation about CAP theorem, consistent hashing, Paxos, or gossip protocols — and you want to apply those ideas to real-world systems at massive scale — this team is where you belong. We are the engineers behind the acclaimed Amazon Dynamo paper, and we continue to push the boundaries of what NoSQL systems can do. We're not just building a cache; we're building a durable, highly available, a...

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