Software Development Engineer, Aurora Control Plane (Level 5)

Do you want to be part of a team that builds hyper-scaler 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 fault-tolerant database service built with a self-healing storage system. Aurora provides unparalleled high-performance and availability at a 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 fastest-growing 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 mission-critical workloads.

As an SDE II on the Aurora Open-Source Control Plane team you will design and implement software components and enhance existing components to help us continuously improve and evolve to meet the growing demands of our customers.

You have experience implementing scalable fault-tolerant and resilient systems & tooling. You have strong technical skills are motivated and results-oriented. You are passionate about engineering robust systems and maintain high standards with your coding design and documentation. You have a continuous learning and growth mindset and relish investigating and solving complex technical problems. 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 work-life balance. Most days our entire team is co-located in the Vancouver offices but we support occasional remote work 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.

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.

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.


- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN BC Vancouver - 114800.00 - 191800.00 CAD annually