Software Dev Engineer II, RDS Data API

Amazon • Redmond, WA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

AWS Relational Database Service’s Data API enables you to focus on building your applications without worrying about managing database connections or connection pools. This is a great fit for the new server-less world where scaled-out server-less functions run for few milli-seconds to minutes. You will be solving interesting distributed systems challenges on the data plane path at AWS’ scale. We are looking for a motivated engineer to help reinvent the customer experience with databases. You will work on a team that architects, designs, and delivers web service APIs connecting to distributed database systems and providing strict availability, reliability and performance guarantees to AWS customers. You will participate in product direction and roadmap planning, project execution scheduling, and hiring engineers to develop database services. This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast-growing service and help shape the technology, and the product. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and leadership expertise, and ability to work within a fast-paced startup culture in a large company to deliver solid code that has a broad business impact.

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

• Architects, designs, and delivers web service APIs connecting to distributed database systems.
• Provides strict availability, reliability and performance guarantees to AWS customers.
• Participates in product direction and roadmap planning.
• Participates in project execution scheduling.
• Hires engineers to develop database services.

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