Cloud-Scale Database Engineer II

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

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Redmond, WA is seeking experienced software engineers to build and scale the Aurora PostgreSQL engine and related cloud database services.

You will design, develop and optimize highly scalable distributed systems across thousands of servers, mentored by senior engineers, and contribute to a fast-growing, data-driven culture in AWS. The role emphasizes collaboration, code reviews, and mentoring others, with opportunities to present at conferences and advance your

Qualifications

• 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across diverse teams to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base.
• Solve challenging technical problems, often not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain software 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

Software development

System design

Programming

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Redmond, WA is seeking experienced software engineers to build and scale the Aurora PostgreSQL engine and related cloud database services.

You will design, develop and optimize highly scalable distributed systems across thousands of servers, mentored by senior engineers, and contribute to a fast-growing, data-driven culture in AWS. The role emphasizes collaboration, code reviews, and mentoring others, with opportunities to present at conferences and advance your