About the Job
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?
About Aurora
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.
Our Impact
Aurora is one of the fastest-growing AWS services, with business and engineering decisions having a widespread impact across many of the world's fastest growing businesses Our customers depend on the performance of our services to scale and support their mission-critical workloads.
About the Team
Operating much like a start-up, we have a very flat organizational structure and a casual office vibe, but leverage all the resources and stability of being the largest cloud provider.
The AWS Aurora CP DEX team for building services for Alameda customer. Alameda's customers are internal AWS service teams that wish to offer software as a service. There are three primary value propositions that Alameda offers teams: improved security, faster time to market and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO).
About the Role
We are looking for Software Development Engineers who have built a lot of software – shipped products, management console, services and modules. You should be passionate about optimizing the software development experience at a very large scale, using your strong technical skills and motivation to achieve results.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
* Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
* Experience in professional, non-internship software development
* Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
* Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
* Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations