Software Development Engineer

4 weeks ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Amazon Full time

Job ID: 2841557 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Amazon Aurora is an exciting new area of innovation for AWS. The MySQL and Postgres-compatible version of Amazon Aurora 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. We are currently spread across Seattle, Boston, and Bangalore.

If you're an engineer who is looking to grow, come on board 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.

Amazon Aurora Performance 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 datacenters worldwide. These are core systems development and performance positions where you will own the design and development of significant system software components and also performance analysis 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.

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 review, 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 your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.

BASIC 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  1. 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
  2. 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.

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