Senior Software Development Engineer Aurora CP - Availability

Do you want to be part of a team that builds hyperscaler 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 faulttolerant database service built with a selfhealing storage system. Aurora provides unparalleled highperformance 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 fastestgrowing AWS services. Our business and engineering decisions have a widespread impact across some of the worlds largest and fastest growing businesses. Our customers depend on the performance stability and availability of our service to scale and support their missioncritical workloads.

As an SDE III on Aurora Availability team you will design and implement software components and enhance existing components to help us continuously improve and evolve to meet growing availability demands from our customers.

We are looking for experienced Software Development Engineers with a proven track record of designing and implementing highly scalable faulttolerant and resilient systems & tooling. You have strong technical skills are motivated and resultsoriented. You are passionate about engineering robust systems and know how to make the right tradeoffs to continue growing quickly to meet our customers demands. You have a continuous learning and growth mindset and relish investigating and solving hard technical challenges. You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and adept at writing technical documents. You are empathetic and curious and naturally amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we as a team work hard to build.

Our team values worklife balance. Most days our entire team is colocated in the Vancouver offices but we support occasional work from home if needed.

We pay close attention to onboarding process and support for new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Project assignments are planned according to development plan of each team member. With this approach team members and constantly progressing on their career paths which enables them to take on more complex projects in the future.

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

We value worklife harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employeeled and companysponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas fresh perspectives and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledgesharing mentorship and other careeradvancing resources here to help you develop into a betterrounded professional.

If this sounds like a place where you will thrive come and join us!

Key job responsibilities
Delivering software features and improvements to major portions of your teams software.

Working with customers stakeholders and peers in order to understand and deliver the right solutions.

Designing software solutions to enable new features or improve existing ones.

Writing technical documentation to describe existing software design and/or propose new solutions.

Operational work to solve customer problems and enhance your teams operations.

Contribute to the full software development lifecycle including scoping design code code reviews testing deployment and maintenance of the teams software.


5 years of noninternship professional software development experience
5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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The base salary for this position ranges from $150700/year up to $251700/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.