Senior Cloud Database Engineer — PostgreSQL & Scale

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Redmond, WA is seeking an experienced software engineer to help build hyper-scale database services for the cloud. You will work on AWS database offerings, including Aurora, and influence the architecture across distributed systems.

You will mentor junior engineers, lead design efforts, and deliver high-quality, scalable software. The team values innovation, collaboration, and hands-on problem solving in a fast-paced startup-like environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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

Software development experience

Programming languages

Design patterns

Mentorship

System architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

PostgreSQL internals

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Redmond, WA is seeking an experienced software engineer to help build hyper-scale database services for the cloud. You will work on AWS database offerings, including Aurora, and influence the architecture across distributed systems.

You will mentor junior engineers, lead design efforts, and deliver high-quality, scalable software. The team values innovation, collaboration, and hands-on problem solving in a fast-paced startup-like environment.