Cloud DB Systems Engineer — Open Source Engines

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Redmond, WA is seeking experienced software engineers to build large-scale database systems for AWS Aurora PostgreSQL. You will contribute to core system software across thousands of servers and mentor others in a collaborative environment.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, performance engineering, and opportunity to impact a broad customer base while working on a highly scalable cloud database service.

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
• 1+ years of programming in Java, C++, Python or related language experience

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Redmond, WA is seeking experienced software engineers to build large-scale database systems for AWS Aurora PostgreSQL. You will contribute to core system software across thousands of servers and mentor others in a collaborative environment.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, performance engineering, and opportunity to impact a broad customer base while working on a highly scalable cloud database service.