Sr. Software Development Engineer, Aurora Storage

Amazon • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in the cloud? Do
you want to revolutionize the way databases are built for the cloud ? Do you
want to have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who
use AWS database services?

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 Storage team is looking for experienced software engineers who are
excited about building large scale systems spanning tens of thousands of
servers, across multiple data-centers worldwide. These are core systems
development positions where you will own the design and development of
significant software components critical to our industry leading database
services architected for the cloud.

In this hands on position you will be asked to do everything from building
rock-solid components to mentoring other engineers. You need to not only be a
top software developer with a good track record of delivering, but also excel in
communication, leadership and customer focus. This is a unique and rare
opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast growing business and
help shape the technology, product and the business. A successful candidate will
bring deep technical and software expertise and ability to work within a fast
moving, startup environment in a large company to deliver high quality code that
has a broad business impact.

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

• 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

• 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