Amazon.com Services LLC

Technology

SeniorSoftwareDevelopmentEngineer,AWSRDSSQLServer

$100–227k Redmond, Washington, United States FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS RDS SQL Server at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Distributed systems, Database management, Cloud computing, Software development. Define strategy in ambiguity. Identify problems and opportunities”

What You'll Achieve.

Achieve reliability goals; Handle failure detection; Accommodate distribution objectives; Scale database operations; Deliver results; Deliver lasting impact

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshooting; Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years non-internship professional software development, 5+ years programming experience, 5+ years leading design or architecture, Experience as a mentor, Experience as a tech lead, Experience leading an engineering team

Nice to Have

5+ years full software development life cycle, Bachelor's degree in computer science

What You'll Do.

Define strategy in ambiguity

Identify problems and opportunities

Design long-term solutions

Lead end-to-end delivery

Own full lifecycle of solutions

Drive cross-functional influence

Collaborate across teams

Solve complex problems

Define project requirements

Resolve escalations decisively

Communicate at all levels

Write strategic narratives

Present to senior leadership

Balance short-term and long-term

Mitigate long-term risks

Mentor and develop talent

Raise team capability

Drive operational excellence

Champion best practices

Elevate team performance

Navigate difficult situations

Escalate appropriately

Deliver lasting impact

Own ambiguous problems

Figure out what to build

Mentor junior developers

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Senior leadership; Product managers; Designers

Communication Scope

Strategic narratives; Presentations

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

RDS provides customers with databases that have multiple-nines of durability and availability. Achieving this level of reliability requires building control and monitoring systems that automatically detect and handle many types of failures within seconds, and data replication options that accommodate various geographical distribution and disaster recovery objectives. The challenge is further heightened by needing to handle huge numbers of databases, multiple database engines (RDS supports MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MariaDB, and Amazon Aurora), and a wide variety of customer workloads. This role is for the AWS RDS for SQL Server team. SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. Amazon RDS for SQL Server makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud. For more information on RDS SQL Server, please visit: http://aws.amazon.com/rds/sqlserver To achieve our goals in this area, we are looking for a Software Engineer who loves to dive in and solve fundamental Computer Science and Systems problems around performance, timing, state machine logic and distributed systems algorithms. Candidates need to have a strong sense of ownership, passion to provide a great customer experience and excellent troubleshooting skills even when in high-pressure situations. If you'd like to be a part of creating always-on databases in the AWS cloud, this is the job for you! Utility Computing (UC) 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. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles en

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