Senior Software Development Engineer, Aurora Control Plane Developer Experience

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for Software Development Engineers to help build hyper-scale database services in the cloud. You will be part of a team that designs and ships distributed, fault-tolerant database software with a direct impact on hundreds of thousands of users of AWS database services.

Aurora is part of AWS Utility Computing and operates with a flat structure and a startup-like vibe, while leveraging the scale and stability of AWS.

Responsibilities

• These are core systems development positions where you will grow to own the design and development of significant system software components critical to our industry leading database services architected for the cloud.
• This is a hands-on position where you will be asked to do everything from building rock-solid components to mentoring other engineers.

Job description

Description

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 a distributed, fault-tolerant database service, leveraging a self-healing storage system which performs up to five times faster than standard MySQL databases and three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases. 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. Operating much like a start-up, we have a very flat organizational structure and a casual office vibe, but leverage all the resources and stability of being the largest cloud provider. We are looking for Software Development Engineers who have built software and shipped products. You should be passionate about optimizing the 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. Aurora is a part of AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Come, join us in reinventing database systems for the cloud!

Key job responsibilities

These are core systems development positions where you will grow to own the design and development of significant system software components critical to our industry leading database services architected for the cloud. You will be part of the team that architects, designs, and implements highly scalable distributed database systems that provide availability, reliability and performance guarantees. This is a hands-on position where you will be asked to do everything from building rock-solid components to mentoring other engineers