Senior Software engineer, SDE3, Aurora MySQL database engine

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.

Are you interested in building hyperscale MySQL database services in the cloud Do you want to revolutionize the way people manage vast volumes of data in the cloud Do you want to have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services

Amazon is breaking new ground and changing the rules for relational Databases. The MySQLcompatible edition of Amazon Aurora is helping customers have enterprise performance availability and durability along with compatibility with the worlds most used open source database MySQL . We believe that Database Services while already a large profitable businesses is in its infancy. Over the next few years it will represent a very large business. We are looking for an experienced technical leader to take our early lead in the database services market and extend it by defining and delivering industry leading next generation databases.

Amazon Aurora MySQL team in Bangalore is looking for experienced technical experts in database development to build services that run across thousands of servers in multiple datacenters worldwide and powers Amazon Aurora service. These are core systems development positions where you will own the design and development of significant system software components critical to our industry storage services architected for the cloud. This is a hands on position where you will be asked to do everything from building rocksolid components to mentoring other engineers. You need to not only be a top software developer with a good track record of delivering but also excel in communication and customer focus. This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast growing business and help shape the technology product and the business. A successful candidate will bring deep technical software expertise and ability to work within a fast moving startup environment in a large company to deliver solid code that has a broad business impact.

Come join us in reinventing database systems for the cloud!

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8 years of noninternship professional software development experience
8 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

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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