Software Development Engineer, Aurora Storage

Amazon • Redmond, WA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and Postgres compatible, relational database service that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. It provides up to five times better performance than MySQL at a price point one tenth that of a commercial database while delivering similar performance and availability. Amazon Aurora is powered by an auto-scaling, auto-healing, distributed storage cluster of massive world-wide scale. Amazon Aurora Global Database enables customers to replicate their data across multiple AWS Regions with sub-second replication lag, providing cross-region disaster recovery. It supports both MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility and allows customers to serve globally distributed read traffic with local latency while maintaining a single, consistent source of truth. Aurora Global Database is powered by Aurora's innovative storage-level replication technology. The Aurora Global Database team is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer who is excited about building globally distributed replication systems that span dozens of AWS Regions and serve mission-critical workloads for the world's largest enterprises. Customer demand for cross-region disaster recovery has reached an all-time peak as organizations accelerate cloud adoption and face increasingly stringent compliance, data sovereignty, and business continuity requirements. You will own the design and implementation of core systems that power cross-region failover, managed planned switchover, write forwarding, and global consistency guarantees at massive scale.

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Nice To Haves

• 5+ 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 build high-performance replication pipelines
• Drive cross-Region failover orchestration
• Define the architecture for the next generation of global database capabilities
• Mentor engineers across the team
• Influence technical direction
• Deliver solutions that directly improve recovery time for customers during regional outages

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: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree