Software Development Engineer, Aurora DSQL

Amazon • Seattle, WA

6d

About The Position

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. If contributing to the
design and development of a new, first-of-its-kind, database excites you, then a
role on this new initiative may be your dream job. Join us during this formative
period of the product and be a leader in shaping the future of databases at
Amazon and beyond!

The Query Processing (QP) team is responsible for planning and executing SQL
statements in the most efficient way possible. The QP team owns everything in
the life cycle of a SQL statement like Parsing, Analysis (syntax and semantic),
Rewriting, Planning (Optimizer) and Execution, and working with custom built
Storage while providing customers access to observability metrics to help them
understand their database performance better.

An ideal candidate has experience building databases and/or large stateful cloud
services, is able to work with senior technical leaders, and is able to invent
simple and elegant solutions. They are able to design, implement and deliver
software systems and mentor junior team members. They thrive on creative and
collaborative problem solving, and also enjoy the challenge of operating
services at AWS scale.

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational
services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute
Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to
set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC
organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute,
Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps
services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized
security solutions for their cloud services

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

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.

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