Senior Software Development Engineer, Aurora PostgreSQL
About the role
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS's services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you'll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Engine team is looking for experienced software engineers in the query optimization domain. We are seeking talented experts who are excited about building large scale database systems that run across thousands of servers across multiple datacenters 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.
Our teams are currently spread across Seattle, Boston and Bangalore. We have one of the most senior teams in AWS - and our senior engineers are eager to brainstorm, mentor, and get software built together. We build software, we patent new things, and we attend conferences around the world to learn even more. We have challenging problems to solve in distributed systems, concurrency, database internals, caching, query optimization, languages, and performance engineering.
Key job responsibilities
- 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
- Design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects
- 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
Basic qualifications
- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Preferred qualifications
- 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- PostgreSQL internals knowledge
Pay
- USA, CA, East Palo Alto - 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually
- USA, WA, Redmond - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)