Sr Software Dev Engineer, Aurora Control Plane
Amazon Aurora is a cloud-native relational database which combines the scalability and performance of the best NoSQL databases paired with full compatibility to the most popular relational open source databases - MySQL and PostgreSQL. Amazon Aurora can store terabytes of customer data and can handle peaks of millions of queries per second.
We build the Amazon Aurora control plane that:
1. Reliably manages a large fleet of databases for our customers freeing them from traditional database operations
2. Guarantees best-in-class availability and failover capabilities to sustain the world’s most demanding workloads
3. Orchestrates and automates the complete lifecycle of a database cluster from creation to operation to scale-out and fail-over
4. Has the unique opportunity to integrate closely with our engine and storage layers to build an end-to-end solution that is easy-to-use and at the same time fulfills the demanding requirements of an enterprise-grade solution
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.
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Key job responsibilities
You read until here, great, our team would like you to help us build the future of this service together. As a senior engineer in our team, you will collaborate together to tackle interesting engineering problems in distributed systems at a large scale. You will have the opportunity to influence and own design and delivery of service features end to end: requirements gathering, design, design reviews, implementations, code reviews, incremental feature launches, operations, writing about it and driving continuous improvement.
You have the opportunity to lead groups of other engineers and collaborate across teams. You will exercise your curiosity, collaborate with diverse teams of smart individuals and get a ton of learning opportunities from senior and principal engineers.
We would love to have you as a mentor and inspiration for our younger and less experienced team members. Finally, we hope you will enjoy seeing how the things you build will delight our customers and help them become successful, as much as we do.
You don’t need you to be an expert in databases or distributed systems as you will have a chance to learn with your team. We are attracted to engineers who love what they do and are passionate about their work. We appreciate curiosity and craftsmanship over knowledge in certain frameworks. Our technologies include:
* Java and Rust
* RESTful microservices
* A lot of AWS stack – EC2, EBS, VPC, Route53, DynamoDB, CDK and Infrastructure as code etc. We eat our own dogfood all the time! Where can you learn AWS technologies better than at AWS itself?
* Ruby/Python for infrastructure components and services
Minimum Qualifications
* 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
* 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
* Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
* 2+ years of experience building scalable distributed systems with service oriented architectures
* A deep understanding of software engineering practices, object oriented analysis & design, design patterns and algorithms
* Experience with distributed databases and/or storage systems
* Demonstrated strong technical judgment in conjunction with passionate customer-focus
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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