Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Aurora DSQL

Amazon • Seattle, WA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, high availability, and zero infrastructure management. Aurora DSQL automatically scales compute, I/O, and storage, adapting to any workload needs. Its active-active serverless design automates failure recovery, eliminating the need for traditional database failover. Aurora DSQL enables customers to build and maintain applications that are always available at any scale. This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing business and shape the technology powering transactional and analytical workloads for a wide range of companies. The role involves contributing to the design and development of this new, first-of-its-kind database, offering a chance to be a leader in its formative period. The Aurora DSQL BOM team addresses complex challenges in hyperscale distributed systems, focusing on accurate real-time metering of billions of transactions, building high-performance observability systems, developing open-source benchmarking tools, and creating ML-based capacity forecasting systems. The team designs and builds novel distributed systems in four critical domains: metering infrastructure with sophisticated test contracts for billing accuracy; monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing for system visibility; open-source benchmarking automation for performance validation; and ML-based capacity forecasting for resource optimization. This work directly impacts every DSQL customer and influences their service experience. The team primarily develops in Rust and uses CDK for cloud infrastructure, operating at the intersection of distributed systems, observability, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations 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

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience leading and influencing your team or organization
• Experience programming in Rust

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and deliver state-of-the-art distributed, high-performance data and transaction processing algorithms and solutions.
• Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant system running in the cloud.
• 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.
• Mentor junior engineers and be a force multiplier in the team.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior