Job Description
Sr. Software Development Engineer, Aurora Control Plane
DESCRIPTION
Looking to be part of a team building hyper-scale database services in the cloud? Do you want to revolutionize the way people manage vast volumes of data in the cloud where you have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services?
Aurora is a distributed, fault-tolerant database service, leveraging a self-healing storage system which performs up to five times faster than standard MySQL databases and three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases.
Aurora is one of the fastest-growing AWS services, with business and engineering decisions having a widespread impact across many of the world's fastest growing businesses Our customers depend on the performance of our services to scale and support their mission-critical workloads.
Operating much like a start-up, we have a very flat organizational structure and a casual office vibe, but leverage all the resources and stability of being the largest cloud provider.
The AWS Aurora Developer Experience (DEX) team is focused on providing capabilities and improving customer developers' productivity by means other than better exposure of features in RDS Console.
The main objective of the team is to allow external developers to iterate faster, overcome less challenges and do more with less every day.
The key areas for DEX team to improve in foreseeable future are:Fast provisioning, Secure connectivity from anywhere, connectivity tips and enhance developer experience. This team also contributes to RDS Console and will drive Aurora-specific console improvements.
We are looking for Software Development Engineers who have built a lot of software - shipped products and created platforms, tools, Ops Console and modules.
You should be passionate about optimizing the software development experience at a very large scale, using your strong technical skills and motivation to achieve results.
You are naturally enthusiastic about learning new technologies and industry trends and are excited by the idea of solving hard technical challenges.
Come, join us in reinventing database systems for the cloudBASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience leading 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 objectoriented design
- 8+ years of professional software development experience.
Experience in any of the following:
Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Data Engineering or DevOps.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Exposure to largescale distributed storage and database systems (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, Graph Databases).
- Delivered software in an environment that utilises Agile methodologies like SCRUM or Kanban.
- Hands on experience with AWS services such as RDS, EC2, Dynamo DB, CloudWatch.