Senior SDE: Aurora Serverless Control Plane

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is hiring a Sr Software Development Engineer for the Aurora Serverless Control Plane in Seattle. You will design and implement systems that orchestrate thousands of databases, and build a scalable platform of APIs and workflows enabling on-demand auto-scaling with no downtime.

The role demands strong software development experience, leadership in design/architecture, and mentoring of engineers in a fast-growing AWS service. Excellent collaboration and customer focus are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement systems that orchestrate thousands of databases.
• Build foundational platform consisting of web service APIs and workflows for Aurora Serverless.
• Mentor other engineers and take role model responsibilities.

Skills

5+ years software development

Leadership / architecture

Mentor / tech lead

Programming experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon is hiring a Sr Software Development Engineer for the Aurora Serverless Control Plane in Seattle. You will design and implement systems that orchestrate thousands of databases, and build a scalable platform of APIs and workflows enabling on-demand auto-scaling with no downtime.

The role demands strong software development experience, leadership in design/architecture, and mentoring of engineers in a fast-growing AWS service. Excellent collaboration and customer focus are essential.