Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Aurora MySQL

Job ID: 2725126 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

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-compatible, relational database engine 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.

We are looking for passionate engineers to help us deliver industry-leading next-generation database services for the cloud. You will be part of the team that architects, designs, and implements highly scalable distributed database systems that provide availability, reliability, and performance guarantees. This is a hands-on position where you will have the opportunity to do everything from building highly distributed and scalable components to mentoring other engineers.

If you are interested in getting in on the ground floor within a fast-growing business and help shape the technology, product, and the business, we would love to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities

Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. You’ll bring a passion for innovation, data, search, analytics, and distributed systems. You’ll also:

  1. Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
  2. Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
  3. Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
  4. Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.

BASIC 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Posted: August 29, 2024

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