Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Aurora DSQL

Amazon • Seattle, WA

8h

About The Position

Does working on the latest distributed systems and database technology excite
you? The Aurora DSQL team at AWS is building revolutionary transactional
database technology, delivering innovative customer experiences in the areas of
automated operations, global scale, query processing, and storage.

Amazon Aurora DSQL (https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/dsql/) is a serverless,
distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, highest availability,
and zero infrastructure management. Aurora DSQL provides active-active high
availability, delivering strong data consistency designed for 99.99%
single-Region and 99.999% multi-Region availability. Aurora DSQL automatically
manages and scales system resources, so you don't have to worry about
maintenance downtime, provisioning, patching, or upgrading infrastructure.

If contributing to the design and development of a new, first-of-its-kind
database excites you, the role on this new initiative 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!
This role is within the Control Plane team which is responsible for managing
heat distribution across the dataplane and ensuring health signals for dataplane
components have quick responses to ensure scalability for the database offering.
In this role you will have the opportunity to apply your deep understanding of
distributed systems architecture and design principles and will be required to
identify and analyze complex problems, devise effective solutions and optimize
performance and scalability. The team develops mostly in Rust and uses CDK
(Amazon Cloud Development Kit) to define cloud infrastructure.

An ideal candidate has expertise in software architecture and large-scale design
patterns, experience with both relational and non-relational database systems,
experience with platform engineering, proficiency in Rust programming, and a
background in designing and operating highly available distributed systems. In
addition, they thrive on creative and collaborative problem solving and also
enjoy the challenge of operating services at AWS scale.

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
• 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
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• Experience in debugging, profiling, and implementing software engineering best practices in large-scale systems

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.
• 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.
• As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you’ll create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects.

Benefits

• Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• 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