Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Aurora DSQL

Does working on the latest distributed systems and database technology excite you? The Aurora DSQL team at AWS is building revolutionary transactional database technology, delivering innovative customer experiences in the areas of automated operations, global scale, query processing, and storage.

Amazon Aurora DSQL (https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/dsql/) is a serverless, distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. Aurora DSQL provides active-active high availability, delivering strong data consistency designed for 99.99% single-Region and 99.999% multi-Region availability. Aurora DSQL automatically

manages and scales system resources, so you don"t have to worry about maintenance downtime, provisioning, patching, or upgrading infrastructure.

If contributing to the design and development of a new, first-of-its-kind database excites you, the role on this new initiative may perfectly fit your career aspirations. Join us during this formative period of the product and be a leader in shaping the future of databases at Amazon and beyond!

This role is within the Control Plane team which is responsible for managing heat distribution across the dataplane and ensuring health signals for dataplane components have quick responses to ensure scalability for the database offering. 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, devise effective solutions and optimize performance and scalability. The team develops mostly in Rust and uses CDK (Amazon Cloud Development Kit) to define cloud infrastructure.

An ideal candidate has expertise in software architecture and large-scale design patterns, experience with both relational and non-relational database systems, experience with platform engineering, proficiency in Rust programming, and a background in designing and operating highly available distributed systems. In addition, they thrive on creative and collaborative problem solving and also enjoy the challenge of operating services at AWS scale.

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:

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

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:

Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.

Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.

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.

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 your 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.

About AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.