The AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) is one of the fastest-growing AWS businesses, providing super-simple provisioning and management for databases in the cloud. Customers can set up a new database with just a few clicks, and complex administrative tasks like scaling, fail-over, and monitoring are all handled in an automated fashion by our control systems.
The RDS team in Palo Alto is looking for Software Development Engineers that helps us evolve the service so that it continues operating at scale. We are looking for people that love to dive in and solve fundamental Computer Science and Systems problems. Candidates need to have a strong sense of ownership, passion to provide a great customer experience and excellent troubleshooting skills even when in high-pressure situations. If you'd like to be a part of creating and operating always-on databases in the AWS cloud, this is the job for you!
Key job responsibilities
- Build large-scale distributed software systems in Java, Python and other languages
- Lead the design and rearchitecture of new and existing services and features that will be deployed and used at massive scale
- Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
- Test and deploy software, and document the features and design of software
- Provide guidance and mentoring to other engineers
- Set the example for your team in terms of code quality, engineering practices, and productivity
- Collaborate with Amazon’s legendary principal engineers to find simple solutions to brain-contorting problems
- Interact with customers and other service teams to understand requirements and define solutions
- Identify, evaluate and suggest mitigation strategies for risks during design
- Support service operations and drive an operational virtuous cycle that reduces or eliminates customer impact
Minimum 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
- 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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