Software Development Engineer, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL

Software Development Engineer, RDS Aurora PostgreSQL

Are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in the cloud? Do you want to revolutionize the way databases are built for the cloud? Do you want to have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services?

Amazon Aurora is an exciting area of innovation for AWS, and the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora is built on one of the most active code bases in the open source community. The Postgres-compatible version of Amazon Aurora is a relational database which offers enterprise-class performance, availability and durability to our customers, along with the management benefits of RDS. We are one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon Web Services, currently spread across Seattle, Toronto and Bangalore.

If you’re a developer who is looking to grow, come on board! We have one of the most senior teams in AWS - our senior developers are eager to brainstorm, mentor, and build software together. We tackle challenging problems in distributed systems, concurrency, database internals, caching, query optimization, and languages.

The Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Engine team is looking for experienced technical experts in relational databases and large scale storage system technologies, who are excited about building large scale database systems that run across thousands of servers across multiple data centers worldwide. These are core systems development positions where you will own the design and development of significant system software components critical to our industry-leading database services architected for the cloud. You will be part of the team that architects, designs, and implements highly scalable distributed database systems that provide availability, reliability and performance guarantees. This is a hands-on position where you will be asked to do everything from building rock-solid components to mentoring other developers. You need to be a top software developer and systems designer with a good track record of delivering, as well as excelling in communication, leadership, and customer focus. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and software expertise and the ability to deliver a service that has a broad business impact.

We intend to be the world's best and fastest database, built by an excellent team, all while having fun - come join us on the journey! For more information about Aurora, please visit aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora .

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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