Sr. Software Development Engineer, Aurora Open Source Engines

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL 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. Both the Postgres and MySQL versions of Aurora are built on some of the most active code bases in the open source community.

We have challenging problems to solve in distributed systems concurrency database internals caching query optimization languages and performance engineering.

The Amazon Aurora Engines team is looking for experienced software engineers in the Engine development team. We are seeking talented experts who are excited about building large scale database systems that run across thousands of servers across multiple datacenters worldwide. These are core development positions where you will own the design and development of significant system software components critical to our industry leading database services designed for the cloud.

Amazon Aurora is a part of AWS Utility Computing (UC) which provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll 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.



Key job 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.
- 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.


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- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in professional non-internship software development
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including object-oriented design

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations

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