Sr Software Dev Engineer, RDS Open Source
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. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
Amazon is breaking new ground and changing the rules for relational databases. 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.
RDS for Opensource runs the largest fleet of MySQL, Postgres & MariaDB databases in the world. By combining the open source power and popularity of MySQL & Postgres with Amazon Web Services, for all our database engines, we think we have a winning combination for both startups and enterprises who are moving all their most important data and applications to the cloud.
We have challenging problems to solve in distributed systems, concurrency, database internals, caching, query optimization, languages, and performance engineering. We intend to be the world's best managed database, built by an excellent team, all while having fun - come join us on the journey!
You will be responsible for defining the development and testing standards, mentoring junior engineers and hiring for the team. You will work with business and other AWS teams and translate the requirements to technical deliverables and hold the bar very high on the quality of our product.
A successful applicant must possess the ability to excel in an ambiguous environment, be smart to define the best possible architecture, have excellent software development skills, good testing aptitude, and working knowledge of relational databases and distributed systems. The ability to learn new skills and concepts rapidly and work independently is essential. Candidates need to have a strong sense of ownership, passion to provide great customer experience, and excellent troubleshooting skills even in high-pressure situations.
Minimum Requirements
1. 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2. 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
3. 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
4. Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team
5. 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
6. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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