Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, high availability, and zero infrastructure management. Aurora DSQL automatically scales compute, I/O, and storage, so it can efficiently adapt to any workload needs. The active-active serverless design automates failure recovery, so customers don't have to worry about traditional database failover. Aurora DSQL helps customers to build and maintain applications that are always available at any scale.
If contributing to the design and development of this new, first-of-its-kind database excites you, then this role may perfectly fit your career aspirations. Join us during this formative period of the product and be a leader in shaping the future of databases at Amazon and beyond!
Our team consists of industry leading innovators, with multitudes of patents and research publications in this space. We are a fun-loving team, that is passionate about ideating, designing, delivering and operating data services to delight customers with exceptional performance and scalability.
If you are excited to contribute to a next generation hyper-scale database service and architecture and are curious and get things done, we would like you to consider our team.
Aurora DSQLs Dataplane Frontend team is responsible for services and components critical for providing security in a multi-tenant environment (Firecracker VMs), protocol correctness for connections and transactions, high availability for established and new sessions, infinite horizontal compute scalability, and low latency for transactions by optimally mapping them to available compute resources. These components address a problem space that will never be fully solved it can continuously be improved. As such, this role requires delivering highly operable and maintainable software, continuous innovations to improve scalability, availability, latency, and efficiency. The team develops mostly in Rust and uses CDK (Amazon Cloud Development Kit) to define cloud infrastructure.
This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast-growing business and help shape the technology that will power transactional and analytical workloads for Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and everything in between. You will bring deep technical, algorithmic and coding expertise with the ability to work within a fast moving and collaborative environment in the industry leading cloud company to deliver a broad business impact. If this sounds exciting to you - come build the future with us!
A day in the life
As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, youll create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects. Youll also:
* Design, implement and deliver state-of-the-art distributed, high-performance data and transaction processing algorithms and solutions.
* Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
* Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant system running in the cloud.
* Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
* Work in a startup-like development environment, where youre always working on the most important stuff.
About the team
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasnt followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, dont let it stop you from applying.
About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isnt about how many hours you spend at home or at work; its about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience programming with Rust.
- Experience building applications using AWS services.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.