Software Development Engineer, Amazon Aurora DSQL

About the role

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.

Aurora DSQL's Dataplane Frontend team is responsible for services and components critical for providing security in a multi-tenant environment (Firecracker µVMs), 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.

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.

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. Join us during this formative period of the product and be a leader in shaping the future of databases at Amazon and beyond!

A day in the life

As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you'll create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects. You'll 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 you're always working on the most important stuff.

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, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

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. Amazon's 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 isn't about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it's 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
• Experience programming with Rust.

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually