Software Development Engineer, Aurora CP; AWS

Software Development Engineer, Aurora CP

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

Do you want to be part of a team that builds hyper-scaler database services in the cloud? Are you interested in revolutionizing the way people manage vast volumes of data in the cloud, impacting hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services?

Amazon Aurora is a distributed, fault-tolerant database service, built with a self-healing storage system. Aurora provides unparalleled high-performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility, at 1/10th the cost of commercial databases. Aurora has 5x the throughput of MySQL and 3x of PostgreSQL.

We are one of the fastest-growing AWS services. Our business and engineering decisions have a widespread impact across some of the world’s largest and fastest growing businesses. Our customers depend on the performance, stability and availability of our service to scale and support their mission‑critical workloads.

As an SDE II on the Aurora Global Databases team, you will design and implement software components and enhance existing components to continuously improve and evolve to meet growing availability demands from our customers.

• Deliver software features and improvements to major portions of your team’s software.
• Work with customers, stakeholders, and peers to understand and deliver the right solutions.
• Design software solutions to enable new features or improve existing ones.
• Write technical documentation to describe existing software design and/or propose new solutions.
• Perform operational work to solve customer problems and enhance your team’s operations.
• Contribute to the full software development lifecycle: scoping, design, code, code reviews, testing, deployment, and maintenance of the team’s software.

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non‑internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability, and scaling of new and existing systems).
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits, including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance and optional supplemental life plans, EAP, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Location:

East Palo Alto, CA. Salary: $ - $ USD annually.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.