Software Development Engineer II, AWS Aurora

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 a distributed, fault-tolerant database service, leveraging a self-healing storage system which performs up to five times faster than standard MySQL databases and three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases.

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.

As an Engineer in the team you will design and implement major database components to allow Amazon Aurora to scale and perform for the growing customer demands under the project of Aurora Global Database.

We are looking for Software Development Engineers who have built a lot of software – shipped products and created control planes, tools and modules. You should be passionate about optimizing the software development experience at a very large scale, using your strong technical skills and motivation to achieve results. You are naturally enthusiastic about learning new technologies and industry trends and are excited by the idea of solving hard technical challenges. You are empathetic and curious, and will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we are building.

Key job responsibilities

1. Delivering software features and improvements to major portions of your team’s software.
2. Working with customers, stakeholders, and peers in order to understand and deliver the right solutions.
3. Designing software solutions to enable new features or improve existing ones.
4. Operational work to solve customer problems and enhance your team's operations.
5. Contribute to the full software development lifecycle, including scoping, design, code, code reviews, testing, deployment and maintenance of the team's software.

About the team

We recognize new team members need time to ramp-up and feel fully comfortable within the team. You will have a launch buddy, an engineer who will help you navigate through this processes offering you help and mentorship.

Minimum Requirements

1. 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
2. 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
3. Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
4. 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
5. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
6. Experience building large-scale distributed systems and cloud services.

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