Senior Cloud-Native Database Engineer - Timestream for InfluxDB

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle, WA seeks a senior software development engineer to design and deliver cloud-native database features for Timestream for InfluxDB. You will work on high-availability, reliability, and performance improvements, while leading projects with a strong engineering team.

The role emphasizes mentorship, hands-on coding in Java/TypeScript/Rust or similar languages, and collaboration with senior leadership to prioritize capabilities and resource planning.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software language.
• 5+ years of leading design/architecture for new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of cloud-native database services in a distributed system context.
• Design, implement, test, and deploy database services optimized for cloud environments.
• Mentor engineers and managers while contributing hands-on technical work.
• Drive technical decisions, design tradeoffs, and feature prioritization.
• Partner with senior executives to define business targets and resource planning.
• Build and scale engineering teams through recruitment and talent development.
• Shape technical strategy to deliver innovative solutions for customers.

Skills

Java/TypeScript/Rust

Distributed systems

Mentor/tech lead

Cloud engineering

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle, WA seeks a senior software development engineer to design and deliver cloud-native database features for Timestream for InfluxDB. You will work on high-availability, reliability, and performance improvements, while leading projects with a strong engineering team.

The role emphasizes mentorship, hands-on coding in Java/TypeScript/Rust or similar languages, and collaboration with senior leadership to prioritize capabilities and resource planning.