Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Technology

SoftwareDevEngineerII,AuroraPostgreSQLEngine

$70–194k Redmond, Washington, United States FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Dev Engineer II, Aurora PostgreSQL Engine at Amazon Web Services, Inc.. Skills: Database systems, Distributed systems, Cloud architecture. Solve technical problems. Design software solutions”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years software development experience, 2+ years system design/architecture experience, Experience programming at least one language

Nice to Have

Bachelor's degree in computer science, 3+ years full SDLC experience

What You'll Do.

Solve technical problems

Design software solutions

Implement software solutions

Test software solutions

Deploy software solutions

Maintain software solutions

Build high-quality products

Build highly available products

Build always-on products

Research implementations

Resolve software 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; Cross-functional teams; Internal and external stakeholders

Communication Scope

Customer focus

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 Postgres-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora is built on one of the most active code bases in the open source community. The Postgres-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. We are currently spread across Seattle and Boston. 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 to do everything from

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