Software Development Engineer, Aurora Control Plane

Amazon • East Palo Alto, CA

22h • $165,200 - $223,600 • Onsite

About The Position

The Aurora Control Plane team is looking for a Software Development Engineer to help build the backbone of Amazon Aurora. This team owns critical infrastructure that powers database migrations, replication, parameter management, and high availability for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS. They build control plane systems that orchestrate the complete lifecycle of customer databases, enabling seamless migrations between RDS and Aurora, managing engine-based replication across regions and availability zones, ensuring customers' database parameters are applied correctly across all supported engines, and architecting the availability framework for Multi-AZ DB Cluster deployments. Their services support millions of active databases across all AWS regions. The role involves designing and implementing features that directly impact hundreds of thousands of AWS customers who depend on Aurora and RDS for their most critical workloads. The engineer will work on challenging distributed systems problems, from building fault-tolerant replication pipelines to improving database availability architectures, all while operating at a scale few teams in the industry can match. This role is for individuals passionate about databases, distributed systems, 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 and implement features that directly impact hundreds of thousands of AWS customers.
• Work on challenging distributed systems problems, including building fault-tolerant replication pipelines and improving database availability architectures.
• Operate at a massive scale.

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: Entry Level