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 a 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 II on the Aurora Availability team, you will design and implement software components and enhance existing components to help us continuously improve and evolve to meet the growing availability demands of our customers.

You have experience implementing 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 maintain high standards with your coding, design and documentation. You have a continuous learning and growth mindset and relish investigating and solving complex technical problems. 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 remote work 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.

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.
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language- 3+ 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

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, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.

The base salary for this position ranges from $114,800/year up to $191,800/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.