Software Development Engineer, Aurora Control Plane, Serverless

Software Development Engineer, Aurora Control Plane, Serverless

Does working on a cutting-edge and fast-growing serverless database excite you? We are looking for a 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 customers 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 is 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 downtime. 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.

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Aurora is one of the fastest growing teams within AWS. The 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 some of the smartest minds in the industry and help innovate on behalf of the customers.

Key Job Responsibilities:

1. Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base.
2. Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
3. Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
4. Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
5. Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.

A Day in the Life:

1. 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.
2. Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
3. Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
4. Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
5. Work in a startup-like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff.

About the Team:

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re 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 their 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, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
2. 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
3. Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
4. 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
5. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit .

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 .