Software Development Engineer - Aurora, Amazon Aurora Limitless Database

Amazon • Toronto, ON

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Looking to be part of a team building hyper-scale database services in the cloud? Do you want to revolutionize the way people manage vast volumes of data in the cloud where you have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services?

Aurora is one of the fastest-growing AWS services, with business and engineering decisions having a widespread impact across many of the world's fastest growing businesses! Our customers depend on the performance of our services to scale and support their mission-critical workloads.

Aurora Limitless Database combines novel distributed database techniques with an innovative serverless platform and heat management capabilities to automatically scale to millions of write transactions per second and manages petabytes of storage within a single database. Limitless Database builds on top of Aurora, a distributed, fault-tolerant database service, leveraging a self-healing storage system that auto-scales up to 128TB in a single volume.

As an Engineer in the Aurora Limitless Database team, you will re-invent distributed database algorithms and protocols, and implement major database components to allow Amazon Aurora to scale and perform for the growing customer demands under project of Aurora Limitless Databases.

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
• Built a lot of software – shipped products and created tools and modules
• Passionate about optimizing the database performance and software development experience at a very large scale
• Strong technical skills and motivation to achieve results
• Naturally enthusiastic about learning new technologies and industry trends
• Excited by the idea of solving hard technical challenges
• Empathetic and curious
• Help amplify the positive & inclusive team culture

Responsibilities

• Re-invent distributed database algorithms and protocols
• Implement major database components to allow Amazon Aurora to scale and perform for the growing customer demands under project of Aurora Limitless Databases.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance)
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
• Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
• Paid time off
• Other resources to improve health and well-being

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed