Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Technology

SeniorSoftwareDevelopmentEngineer,AuroraPostgreSQL

$168–227k Redmond, Washington, United States FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Software Development Engineer, Aurora PostgreSQL at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.. Skills: Database internals, Distributed systems, Cloud database. Solve challenging technical problems. Design innovative software solutions”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7+ years non-internship professional software development, 7+ years programming experience, 5+ years leading design or architecture, Experience as mentor or tech lead, Bachelor's degree in computer science

Nice to Have

7+ years full software development lifecycle experience, PostgreSQL internals knowledge

What You'll Do.

Solve challenging technical problems

Design innovative software solutions

Implement innovative software solutions

Test innovative software solutions

Deploy innovative software solutions

Maintain innovative software solutions

Build high-quality products

Build highly available products

Build always-on products

Research implementations for customers

Design and code solutions

Resolve root cause of defects

Build high-impact solutions

Participate in design discussions

Participate in code review

Communicate with stakeholders

Work cross-functionally

Drive business decisions

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate across diverse teams; Communicate with internal stakeholders; Communicate with external stakeholders; Work cross-functionally

Full Job Description

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 an exciting new area of innovation for AWS, and the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora is built on one of the most active code bases in the open source community. The PostgreSQL-compatible version of Amazon Aurora is a relational database which offers enterprise-class performance, availability and durability to our customers, along with the management benefits of RDS. We are one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon Web Services. Our teams are currently spread across Seattle, Boston and Bangalore. If you’re an engineer who is looking to grow, come on board! We have one of the most senior teams in AWS - and our senior engineers are eager to brainstorm, mentor, and get software built together. We build software, we patent new things, and we attend conferences around the world to learn even more. We have challenging problems to solve in distributed systems, concurrency, database internals, caching, query optimization, languages, and performance engineering. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Engine team is looking for experienced technical experts in relational databases and large scale storage system technologies, who are excited about building large scale database systems that run across thousands of servers across multiple datacenters worldwide. These are core systems development positions where you will own the design and development of significant system software components critical to our industry leading database services architected 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 be asked

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