Software Development Engineer III, Aurora Storage, Aurora Storage

Are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in the cloud Do you want to revolutionize the way databases are built for the cloud Do you want to have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and Postgres compatible relational database service that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. It provides up to five times better performance than MySQL at a price point one tenth that of a commercial database while delivering similar performance and availability. Amazon Aurora is powered by an auto-scaling auto-healing distributed storage cluster of massive world-wide scale.

Amazon Aurora Storage platform team is looking for experienced software engineers who are excited about building large scale systems spanning tens of thousands of servers across multiple data-centers worldwide. These are core systems development positions where you will own the design and development of significant software components critical to our industry leading database services architected for the cloud.

In this hands-on position you will be asked to do everything from building rock-solid 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 leadership 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 and software expertise and ability to work within a fast moving startup environment in a large company to deliver high quality code that has a broad business impact.

About the team
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Key job responsibilities
Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams projects and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. Youll bring a passion for innovation data search analytics and distributed systems. Youll also:
Solve challenging technical problems often ones not solved before at every layer of the stack.
Design implement test deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance durability cost and security.
Build high-quality highly available always-on products.
Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.

- 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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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 Redmond - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually