Software Dev Engineer II, Aurora Open Source Engines
About The Position
Amazon Aurora is an innovative and rapidly growing area within AWS, focusing on hyper-scale database services in the cloud. The Postgres-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora is built on an active open-source community codebase, offering enterprise-class performance, availability, and durability with the management benefits of RDS. This role is within the Amazon Aurora Open Source Engines team, which is looking for experienced technical experts in relational databases and large-scale storage systems to build and develop significant system software components for cloud-architected database services. The team is responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing highly scalable distributed database systems that ensure availability, reliability, and performance. This is a hands-on position involving component development and mentoring other engineers, requiring strong software development, systems design, communication, leadership, and customer focus skills. The team's goal is to be the world's best and fastest database, built by an excellent team, while fostering a fun environment.
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 experience in C++, Rust, Related programming language
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Responsibilities
- Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
- Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
- Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
- Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.
- Create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects.
- Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
- Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
- 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.
- Own the design and development of significant system software components critical to our industry leading database services architected for the cloud.
- Mentor other engineers.
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)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
