Senior Software Development Engineer, Aurora CP - Availability

Looking to be part of a team building hyper-scale database services in the cloud? Do you want to revolutionize the way people manage vast volumes of data in the cloud where you have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services?

Aurora is a distributed, fault-tolerant database service, leveraging a self-healing storage system which performs up to five times faster than standard MySQL databases and three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases.

Aurora is one of the fastest-growing AWS services, with business and engineering decisions having a widespread impact across many of the world's largest and fastest growing businesses! Our customers depend on the performance of our services to scale and support their mission-critical workloads.

As an SDE III on Aurora Availability team, you will design and implement software components and enhance existing components to help us continuously improve and evolve to meet growing customer demands in the Availability space.

We are looking for experienced Software Development Engineers with a proven track record of designing and implementing highly scalable, fault-tolerant and resilient systems & tooling.

You have strong technical skills, are motivated and results-oriented. You are passionate about engineering robust systems, and know how to make the right trade-offs to continue growing quickly to meet our ever growing demands.

You have a continuous learning and growth mindset and relish investigating and solving hard technical challenges. You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and adept at writing technical documents.

You are empathetic and curious, and will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we are building.

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. Most days, our entire team is co-located in the Vancouver offices, but we support occasional work from home if needed.

We pay close attention to onboarding process and support for new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

Project assignments are planned according to development plan of each team member. With this approach team members and constantly progressing on their career paths which enables them to take on more complex projects in the future.

Come, join us in reinventing database systems for the cloud!

Key job responsibilities

Delivering software features and improvements to major portions of your team’s software.

Working with customers, stakeholders, and peers in order to understand and deliver the right solutions.

Designing software solutions to enable new features or improve existing ones.

Writing technical documentation to describe existing software design and / or propose new solutions.

Operational work to solve customer problems and enhance your team's operations.

Contribute to the full software development lifecycle, including scoping, design, code, code reviews, testing, deployment and maintenance of the team's software.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Vancouver, BC, CAN

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ 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
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ 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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