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Back in the hazy days when relational databases struggled to scale beyond a certain point—and everyone decided they needed “NoSQL”—Amazon gifted us DynamoDB. The promise? Limitless scalability, single-digit millisecond performance, and a blissful escape from joins. It’s essentially a key-value and document database on steroids, cleverly distributing data across multiple servers. Quite clever, really, though one does wonder if the sheer complexity hidden under the hood justifies the performance gains for every use case.

In practice, it’s a bit more nuanced. Forget ad-hoc querying; DynamoDB demands you know your access patterns before you even begin. Think carefully about your primary keys, or prepare for expensive table scans. Compared to Cassandra or MongoDB, it’s arguably easier to manage—provided you stay within Amazon’s ecosystem—and offers tighter integration with other AWS services. Today, it’s a mainstay for session management, gaming leaderboards, and any application needing to handle truly massive scale…as long as you’re willing to pay the price in operational complexity and flexibility.

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AI / ML Platform Engineer @ whatnot-inc

US | 2025-12-28 | USD 225000 - 320000 / year
Whatnot’s AI/ML Platform Engineer role promises building the infra that powers live-shopping AI—from low-latency large-model serving to distributed training on GPUs—while cohabiting with ML... read more »
AI/ML, LLM, Computer Science, Python, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, ELK, Redis, Datadog, Grafana, Cloud Computing, AWS, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Lambda, Kinesis, S3, Amazon EC2, Kafka, Flink
analyst

Analytics & Insights Analyst @ global-technical-talent

US | 2025-12-28 | USD 69 - 93 / hour
Analysts, take note: this Newark-based nine-month contract as Analytics & Insights Analyst sits at the crossroads of data, strategy, and customer experience. Core stack leans SQL, Python, Excel;... read more »
Analytics, Tableau, QuickSight, Data Quality, Data Analytics, SQL, Python, Adobe Analytics, ETL/ELT, DWH, AWS, Redshift, S3, DynamoDB, JavaScript, Git
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O'Reilly: Building AI Agents with Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Design and implement composable agent architectures using MCP. Understand the MCP architecture and how it enables AI applications to access external context. Build MCP servers that expose tools, resources, and prompts to LLMs.

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Software Engineer- Data Platform @ pagaya

IL | 2025-12-27
Pagaya seeks a data engineer to develop scalable data pipelines and architecture using AWS tools like S3, Athena, and DynamoDB. The role's differentiator is support for LLM-driven workflows,... read more »
AI/ML, API, Data Engineering, Analytics, AWS, S3, Athena, DynamoDB, Python, Kubernetes, ETL/ELT, SQL, Computer Science, Go
data engineer

Data Engineer -601/602 @ ptrglobal

US | 2025-12-24 | USD 65 - 70 / hour
A data engineer role focused on AWS, Python, and Spark within a bank's consumer division; requires designing data pipelines and models, with a differentiator being expertise in cloud data lake... read more »
AWS, Python, Spark, Data Lake, Agile/Scrum, Data Collection, Analytics, SQL, NoSQL, Data Quality, Data Governance, Data Engineering, PySpark, GenAI, API, Cloud Computing, Data Lakehouse, Databricks, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Cassandra, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Snowflake, Redshift, Airflow, Unix, Avro, Protobuf, Parquet, Iceberg, Data Streaming, Data Modelling, Data Vault, dimensional modeling, CI/CD
data engineer

Senior Software Engineer (Enterprise+ App team) @ trustpilot

DK | 2025-12-24
This role is a misrepresentation of what a senior software engineer at Trustpilot should entail. The description is vague, lacks specific technical details, and emphasizes vague notions of... read more »
Management, Data Science, Data Analytics, API, Cloud Computing, React, AWS, AWS Lambda, CloudFormation, TypeScript, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Go
data engineer

Senior Data Architect @ automat-it

IL | 2025-12-24
The Senior Data Architect at Automat-it is responsible for designing scalable, cost-efficient data solutions on AWS, working closely with startup clients to translate concepts into production. A... read more »
Cloud Computing, AWS, DevOps, FinOps, GenAI, Analytics, Data Engineering, Amazon EC2, S3, Amazon RDS, AWS Lambda, CloudFormation, DynamoDB, AWS Glue, Athena, Redshift, Amazon EMR, Kinesis, QuickSight, dbt, Cyber Security, Iceberg, Kubernetes, CI/CD, ETL/ELT, Data Analytics
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O'Reilly Power BI Learning

Master Power BI fast: build basic-to-advanced visuals, apply smart design, use dynamic slicers/filters & new cards, choose the right chart, spotlight key insights, brand and theme reports, and seamlessly publish/share in the Service.

machine learning engineer

Machine Learning Engineer @ rea-group

AU | 2025-12-24
REA Group promises a hands-on ML engineering role within a top-tier property brand, building scalable multi-modal AI across web and app platforms. The tech stack reads like a tour of modern ML... read more »
AI/ML, GenAI, LLM, API, Cloud Computing, AWS, GCP, Amazon SageMaker, Docker, IaC, Python, DataViz, Analytics, Data Science, SQL, PyTorch, Keras, RDBMS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, NoSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, ELK, Amazon EC2, S3, Terraform, CloudFormation
machine learning engineer

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Fraud & Abuse @ joinblock

US | 2025-12-21 | USD 276800 - 415200 / year
Block's Staff ML Engineer role in Fraud and Abuse ML Engineering promises leadership in real-time and batch ML at scale to protect millions of customers. The stack is familiar: Python, Java,... read more »
AI/ML, API, Data Quality, Management, Python, Java, Databricks, DynamoDB, Kafka, Spark, C
machine learning engineer

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Risk Signals & Controls @ joinblock

US | 2025-12-21 | USD 276800 - 415200 / year
The Risk Signals and Controls team at Block builds real-time fraud signals and ML-ready pipelines, ingesting third-party and Block data, maintaining a feature store, and productionizing scalable... read more »
AI/ML, Data Quality, Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Java, Databricks, DynamoDB, Kafka, Airflow, C
data engineer

Director - Data Engineering @ slalom-consulting

AU | 2025-12-21
Slalom’s Director of Data Engineering reads like a tour through every enterprise cloud pattern without naming a single platform as a lasting home. It promises leadership across AWS, Azure, and... read more »
Agile/Scrum, Management, Data Engineering, AI/ML, Analytics, AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloud Computing, DWH, Data Streaming, Big Data, Spark, Presto, Amazon EMR, Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, Java, Python, NoSQL, DynamoDB, Cosmos, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Amazon SageMaker, Kinesis, Kafka, Tableau, Power BI, Airflow, dbt, Dagster
data scientist

Senior Software Architect, Advanced Development @ nvidia

IL | 2025-12-21
NVIDIA seeks a senior architect capable of translating complex business needs into technical solutions within data centers, focusing on accelerate networking and AI workloads. The role's... read more »
AI/ML, Data Analytics, DynamoDB, Computer Science, Linux
data engineer

Senior Software Engineer @ ogury-ltd

FR | 2025-12-21
Ogury seeks a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain scalable backend systems for its adtech platform. The role emphasizes Go and distributed systems, with responsibilities in system... read more »
AI/ML, DevOps, Agile/Scrum, Grafana, Prometheus, Redis, DynamoDB, SQL, AWS, Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Kafka