Sr Software Dev Engineer, Aurora Control Plane

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. Within AWS UC Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Amazon is breaking new ground and changing the rules for relational databases. If youre a software engineering leader who is looking to lead a team changing the rules for relational databases 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 have challenging problems to solve in distributed systems concurrency database internals caching query optimization languages and performance engineering.

Operating much like a start-up we have a very flat organizational structure and a casual office vibe but leverage all the resources and stability of being the largest cloud provider.

The AWS Aurora CP team explores how to provide the best in class cloud database to our customers by constantly improving performance interaction experience availability and maintainability of Aurora databases.

We have challenging problems to solve in distributed systems concurrency database internals caching query optimization languages and performance engineering. We intend to be the worlds best managed database built by an excellent team all while having fun - come join us on the journey!

You will be responsible for defining the development and testing standards mentoring junior engineers and hiring for the team. You will work with business and other AWS teams and translate the requirements to technical deliverables and hold the bar very high on the quality of our product.

A successful applicant must possess ability to excel in ambiguous environment be smart to define the best possible architecture be excellent software development skills good testing aptitude working knowledge of relational databases and distributed systems. Ability to learn new skills and concepts rapidly and work independently is essential. Candidates need to have a strong sense of ownership passion to provide great customer experience and excellent troubleshooting skills even when in high-pressure situations.


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- 5 years of non-internship 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

- 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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