Cloud Database SDE: Scale, Availability & Performance

Amazon Inc.

Palo Alto (CA)

On-site

USD 165,000 - 224,000

Full time

9 hours ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in East Palo Alto, CA, is seeking software engineers to advance the world's leading relational database services on AWS. You will tackle complex distributed systems challenges, focusing on availability, durability, and scale across a broad fleet of RDS deployments.

The team fosters mentorship, learning, and collaboration while delivering high-performance, reliable cloud database solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of non-internship software development experience
  • 2+ years of design or architecture experience for scalable systems
  • 1+ years of software development engineer experience
  • 1+ years designing large-scale distributed software applications
  • 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
  • Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or related field
  • Experience programming with at least one language

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop distributed systems for high availability and scalability
  • Build REST APIs for lifecycle management and deployment workflows
  • Contribute to auto-recovery and zero-downtime upgrades in a cloud environment

Skills

Software development
Design patterns
Reliability
Scaling
Object Oriented Design
Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

Apache Flink
Apache Iceberg
Kubernetes

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in East Palo Alto, CA, is seeking software engineers to advance the world's leading relational database services on AWS. You will tackle complex distributed systems challenges, focusing on availability, durability, and scale across a broad fleet of RDS deployments.

The team fosters mentorship, learning, and collaboration while delivering high-performance, reliable cloud database solutions in a fast-paced environment.

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