Software Development Engineer, Amazon Aurora DSQL

Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, high availability, and zero infrastructure management. The Dataplane Frontend team is responsible for critical services and components providing security in a multi-tenant environment using Firecracker µVMs, protocol correctness for connections and transactions, high availability, and infinite horizontal compute scalability.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will:

• Design and implement state-of-the-art distributed, high-performance data and transaction processing algorithms
• Create metrics, implement automation and resolve root causes of software defects
• Participate in design discussions and code reviews
• Deploy and monitor features in a highly available cloud system
• Work cross-functionally to drive business decisions

The team develops primarily in Rust and uses CDK (Amazon Cloud Development Kit) for cloud infrastructure. This role offers:

• Mentorship and career growth opportunities
• A supportive environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing
• Work-life balance with flexible working hours
• Inclusive team culture with 10 employee-led affinity groups
• Comprehensive benefits and competitive compensation

Join us in shaping the future of databases at Amazon, working with industry-leading innovators in a team passionate about delivering exceptional performance and scalability. This is an opportunity to contribute to a next-generation hyper-scale database service that will power workloads for Fortune 500 companies and startups alike.