Senior Software Development Engineer, Aurora PostgreSQL; AWS

Senior Software Development Engineer, Aurora PostgreSQL

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

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 to do everything from building rock‑solid components to mentoring other engineers. You need to not only be a top software developer and systems designer with a good track record of delivering, but also excel in communication, leadership and customer focus.

A successful candidate will bring deep technical and software expertise and ability to deliver a service that has a broad business impact.

We intend to be the world's best and fastest database, built by an excellent team, all while having fun – come join us on the journey! For more information about Aurora, please visit

• Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
• Build high‑quality, highly available, always‑on products.
• Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.

• Build high‑impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
• Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Work cross‑functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
• Work in a startup‑like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff.

• 7+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

• 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
• PostgreSQL internals knowledge.

Base salary range:  –  USD annually in Redmond, WA. Your Amazon…