Sr. Software Development Engineer, Aurora Leadership

Sr. Software Development Engineer, Aurora Leadership

DESCRIPTION

Are you an experienced database kernel developer looking to be part of a team building large 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 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. You will be working on Aurora that builds on a distributed, fault-tolerant database service, leveraging a self-healing storage system that auto-scales up to 128TB in a single volume. 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.

We are looking for software engineers who have extensive experience working in relational database engine internals. Experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL development and knowledge of distributed databases concepts will be an added advantage.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in professional, non-internship software development
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience in development in the last 3 years

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

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