Senior Distributed Database Engineer – Cloud Scale

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

Job summary

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible relational database engine that combines speed and reliability with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. The team designs scalable systems across datacenters, delivering high availability for AWS customers.

We are looking for experienced software engineers to own design and development of core components, mentor others, and contribute to a world-class distributed database service in the cloud.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base.
• 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

4+ years of software development

2+ years design/architecture

Programming in at least one language

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible relational database engine that combines speed and reliability with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. The team designs scalable systems across datacenters, delivering high availability for AWS customers.

We are looking for experienced software engineers to own design and development of core components, mentor others, and contribute to a world-class distributed database service in the cloud.