Sr Software Development Engineer Aurora Limitless Database

Are you an experienced database kernel developer looking to be part of a team building large scale database services in the cloud Do you want to revolutionize the way people manage vast volumes of data in the cloud where you have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services

Aurora Limitless Database combines novel distributed database techniques with an innovative serverless platform and heat management capabilities to automatically scale to millions of write transactions per second and manages petabytes of storage within a single database. Limitless Database builds on top of Aurora a distributed faulttolerant database service leveraging a selfhealing storage system that autoscales up to 128TB in a single volume. Aurora is one of the fastestgrowing AWS services with business and engineering decisions having a widespread impact across many of the worlds fastest growing businesses! Our customers depend on the performance of our services to scale and support their missioncritical workloads.

We are looking for software engineers who have extensive experience working in relational database engine internals. Experience with PostgreSQL development and knowledge of distributed databases concepts will be an added advantage.

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4 years of database engine development experience within a wellknown database system
7 years of noninternship professional software development experience
7 years of programming experience
Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
Bachelors 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
Experience in designing system components
PostgreSQL internals knowledge

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