Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Aurora DSQL

Aurora DSQL is a serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale high availability and zero infrastructure management. Aurora DSQL automatically scales compute I/O and storage so it can efficiently adapt to any workload needs. The active-active serverless design automates failure recovery so customers dont have to worry about traditional database failover. Aurora DSQL helps customers to build and maintain applications that are always available at any scale.

This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast-growing business and help shape the technology that will power transactional and analytical workloads for Fortune 500 companies start-ups and everything in between. If contributing to the design and development of this new first-of-its-kind database excites you then this role may perfectly fit your career aspirations. Join us during this formative period of the product and be a leader in shaping the future of databases at Amazon and beyond!

Aurora DSQLs BOM team tackles some of the most challenging problems in distributed systems at hyperscale. How do you accurately meter billions of transactions across a globally distributed active-active database in real-time while ensuring every customer is billed correctly How do you build observability systems that provide deep insights into a distributed SQL engine without impacting performance How do you benchmark a database that can scale infinitely and make those tools available to customers worldwide How do you predict capacity needs for a system that can grow from zero to massive scale in minutes

The team designs and builds novel distributed systems across four critical domains: metering infrastructure with sophisticated test contracts to guarantee billing accuracy; monitoring logging and distributed tracing solutions that give engineers and customers unprecedented visibility into system behavior; open-source benchmarking automation that validates DSQLs performance against industry-leading databases; and ML-based capacity forecasting systems that optimize resource utilization across AWS regions.

This work directly impacts every DSQL customer and shapes how they experience the service. The team develops primarily in Rust and uses CDK to define cloud infrastructure working at the intersection of distributed systems observability and operational excellence.

A day in the life
As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture youll create metrics implement automation and other improvements and resolve the root cause of software defects. Youll also:
- Design implement and deliver state-of-the-art distributed high-performance data and transaction processing algorithms and solutions.
- Participate in design discussions code review and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
- Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant system running in the cloud.
- Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
- Work in a startup-like development environment where youre always working on the most important stuff.
- Mentor junior engineers and be a force multiplier in the team

About the team
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- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations 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

- Masters degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience leading and influencing your team or organization
- Experience programming in Rust

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually