Do you want to be part of a team that builds hyper-scaler database services in the cloud? Are you interested in revolutionizing the way people manage vast volumes of data in the cloud, impacting hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services?

Amazon Aurora is a distributed, fault-tolerant database service, built with a self-healing storage system. Aurora provides unparalleled high-performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility, at 1/10th the cost of commercial databases. Aurora has 5x the throughput of MySQL and 3x of PostgreSQL.

We are one of the fastest-growing AWS services. Our business and engineering decisions have a widespread impact across some of the world's largest and fastest growing businesses. Our customers depend on the performance, stability and availability of our service 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 availability demands from our customers.

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 customers' 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 naturally amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we, as a team, work hard to build.

Our team values 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.

If this sounds like a place where you will thrive, come and join us!

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.