Software Dev Engineer II, Platform Engineering , Amazon Aurora DSQL

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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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, so it can efficiently adapt to
any workload needs. The active-active serverless design automates failure
recovery, so customers don't have to worry about traditional database failover.
Aurora DSQL helps customers to build and maintain applications that are always
available at any scale.

This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a
fast-growing business and help shape the technology that will power
transactional and analytical workloads for Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and
everything in between. If contributing to the design and development of this
new, first-of-its-kind database excites you, then this role may perfectly fit
your career aspirations. Join us during this formative period of the product and
be a leader in shaping the future of databases at Amazon and beyond!

Aurora DSQL's Platform Engineering team tackles some of the most challenging
problems in distributed systems at hyperscale. How do you accurately meter
billions of transactions across a globally distributed, active-active database
in real-time while ensuring every customer is billed correctly? How do you build
observability systems that provide deep insights into a distributed SQL engine
without impacting performance? How do you benchmark a database that can scale
infinitely and make those tools available to customers worldwide? How do you
predict capacity needs for a system that can grow from zero to massive scale in
minutes?

The team designs and builds novel distributed systems across four critical
domains: metering infrastructure with sophisticated test contracts to guarantee
billing accuracy; monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing solutions that
give engineers and customers unprecedented visibility into system behavior;
open-source benchmarking automation that validates DSQL's performance against
industry-leading databases; and ML-based capacity forecasting systems that
optimize resource utilization across AWS regions.

This work directly impacts every DSQL customer and shapes how they experience
the service. The team develops primarily in Rust and uses CDK to define cloud
infrastructure, working at the intersection of distributed systems,
observability, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• 3+ 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

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.

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

What This Job Offers

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