Software Development Engineer - Aurora, Amazon Aurora Limitless Database

Amazon; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud services provider in Toronto is seeking a Software Development Engineer for their Aurora Limitless Database team. This role involves reinventing database algorithms and optimizing performance to meet the growing demands of customers. Candidates should have over three years of software development experience and be enthusiastic about learning new technologies. The team values work-life balance and fosters an inclusive culture, allowing flexibility in working hours and supporting career progression.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship software development experience.
• Experience programming with at least one programming language.
• 2+ years of system design or architecture experience.

Responsibilities

• Re-invent distributed database algorithms and protocols.
• Implement major database components.
• Optimize database performance for customer demands.

Skills

Software development experience

Database optimization

Technical problem-solving

Job description

Software Development Engineer - Aurora, Amazon Aurora Limitless Database

Looking to be part of a team building hyper‑scale database services in the cloud? Do you want to revolutionize the way people manage vast volumes of data in the cloud where you have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services?

Aurora is one of the fastest‑growing AWS services, with business and engineering decisions having a widespread impact across many of the world's fastest growing businesses! Our customers depend on the performance of our services to scale and support their mission‑critical workloads.

Aurora Limitless Database combines novel distributed database techniques with an innovative serverless platform and heat‑management capabilities to automatically scale to millions of write transactions per second and manages petabytes of storage within a single database. Limitless Database builds on top of Aurora, a distributed, fault‑tolerant database service, leveraging a self‑healing storage system that auto‑scales up to 128TB in a single volume.

As an Engineer in the Aurora Limitless Database team, you will re‑invent distributed database algorithms and protocols, and implement major database components to allow Amazon Aurora to scale and perform for the growing customer demands under the project of Aurora Limitless Databases.

We are looking for Software Development Engineers who have built a lot of software – shipped products and created tools and modules. You should be passionate about optimizing the database performance and software development experience at a very large scale, using your strong technical skills and motivation to achieve results. You are naturally enthusiastic about learning new technologies and industry trends and are excited by the idea of solving hard technical challenges. You are empathetic and curious, and will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we are building.

Our team puts a high value on work‑life balance. Our entire team is located in the Toronto office. Majority of team is present between 10am and 4pm and we provide flexibility for people to structure their working hours around them.

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 we’re 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 are constantly progressing on their career paths which enable them to take on more complex projects in the future.

Come, join us in reinventing database systems for the cloud!

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

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