Senior Software Engineer, Aurora PostgreSQL

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Engine team within AWS Utility Computing in Redmond seeks experienced software engineers to design and build cloud database services. You will contribute to distributed systems, concurrency, caching, and performance optimization across the stack.

This role emphasizes leadership, mentoring, code reviews, and delivering highly available, scalable solutions for enterprise customers. Expect a rigorous, collaborative environment with career growth and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 7+ years of programming experience in at least one programming language.
• 5+ years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
• Experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering team lead.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or an equivalent qualification.
• Preferred: 7+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Preferred: knowledge of PostgreSQL internals.

Responsibilities

• Solve complex technical challenges, often at every layer of the stack.
• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain innovative software that improves service performance, durability, cost, and security.
• Develop high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
• Research implementations that create the best possible customer experience.
• Create metrics, automate improvements, and address the root cause of software defects.
• Build impactful solutions for our large customer base.
• Participate in design discussions and code reviews, and communicate with stakeholders.
• Work cross-functionally to help shape business decisions with technical insight.
• Contribute in a fast-moving development environment focused on the most important priorities.

Skills

Software development

Programming experience

Mentor/tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

PostgreSQL internals

Job description

Requirements

Must have:

• We require 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• We require 7+ years of programming experience in at least one programming language.
• We require 5+ years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
• We require experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering team lead.
• We require a bachelors degree in computer science or an equivalent qualification.
• Preferred: 7+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Preferred: knowledge of PostgreSQL internals.

Responsibilities:

• We solve complex technical challenges, often at every layer of the stack.
• We design, build, test, deploy, and maintain innovative software that improves service performance, durability, cost, and security.
• We develop high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
• We research implementations that create the best possible customer experience.
• We create metrics, automate improvements, and address the root cause of software defects.
• We build impactful solutions for our large customer base.
• We participate in design discussions and code reviews, and we communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• We work cross-functionally to help shape business decisions with our technical insight.
• We contribute in a fast-moving development environment focused on the most important priorities.

Company:

We are Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Engine team within AWS Utility Computing, building hyper-scale cloud database services that deliver enterprise-class performance, availability, and durability for customers worldwide. Our teams are based in Seattle, Boston, and Bangalore, and we work as a highly experienced group of engineers who collaborate, mentor one another, and tackle challenging problems in distributed systems, concurrency, database internals, caching, query optimization, languages, and performance engineering. We value innovation, inclusion, career growth, and work-life balance, and we offer comprehensive benefits including health coverage, retirement matching, paid time off, parental leave, and more. This role is based in Redmond, Washington, with a listed annual base salary range of 168,400 USD.