Software Development Engineer, Aurora, Control Plane

Software Development Engineer, Aurora, Control Plane

Job ID: 2731739 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Does working on a cutting edge and fast growing serverless database excite you? We are looking for self-driven, passionate, and experienced engineering leader to build next generation predictive heat management and placement solutions that will make Aurora Serverless highly available, scalable, reliable and fast.

This is a unique and rare opportunity to make an impact for a fast-growing AWS service and shape the future of the cutting-edge database technology, and of the cloud in general. In this role, you will have the opportunity to apply your deep understanding of distributed systems architecture and design principles and will be required to identify and analyze complex problems to develop elegant and efficient solutions to optimize performance and scalability.

We are looking to innovate on behalf of our customers and bring them the best experience possible while delivering high availability, performance and scalability. This is a huge impact role to redefine how we predict customers (Database developers) ever changing needs and create / design mechanisms that would create and or optimize Aurora Serverless V2 features. You would help lead and solve for lowering costs for customer and help bring in great stability and durability of our services.

Amazon Aurora:
Imagine a database where you don't have to worry about the configuration or capacity of your database. Where you don't have to worry about what kind of load that your product or service will put on it and you only pay for what you use. Want to learn more? Then read on.

Amazon Aurora Serverless an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora where the database will automatically start up, shut down, and scale capacity up or down based on your application's needs, with no down time. It enables you to run your database in the cloud without managing any database instances. With Amazon Aurora Serverless we aim to do nothing less than revolutionize the database business. Aurora Serverless builds on top of foundational AWS services such as EC2, S3 and DynamoDB and we are breaking new ground in the way that customers experience databases.

To learn more about Amazon Aurora Serverless visit: job responsibilities:

1. Design and build next generation Instance types for Aurora Serverless.
2. Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with engineers from other teams.

About the team

Aurora is one of the fastest growing teams within AWS. Aurora Serverless Heat and placement team which is part of the control plane team in Aurora orchestrates how heat is managed. You would have an opportunity to work with one of the smartest minds in the industry and help innovate on behalf of the customers.

Key job responsibilities

Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. You’ll bring a passion for innovation, data, search, analytics, and distributed systems. You’ll also:

1. Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
2. Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
3. Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
4. Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.

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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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