Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Aurora DSQL

Benefits

Parental leave

6 weeks From the posting source

Non-birth-parent leave

6 weeks From the posting source

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Salary

$168K-$227K From the posting source

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$111,944 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+13.7% - Much faster than average

77% above the BLS role benchmark for data and ml aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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About this role

Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Aurora DSQL Seattle, Washington, USA Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, high availability, and zero infrastructure management. Aurora DSQL automatically scales compute, I/O, and storage, so it can efficiently adapt to any workload needs. The active-active serverless design automates failure recovery, so customers don't have to worry about traditional database failover. Aurora DSQL helps customers to build and maintain applications that are always available at any scale. This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast-growing business and help shape the technology that will power transactional and analytical workloads for Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and everything in between. If contributing to the design and development of this new, first-of-its-kind database excites you, then this role may perfectly fit your career aspirations. Join us during this formative period of the product and be a leader in shaping the future of databases at Amazon and beyond! Aurora DSQL's BOM team tackles some of the most challenging problems in distributed systems at hyperscale. How do you accurately meter billions of transactions across a globally distributed, active-active database in real-time while ensuring every customer is billed correctly? How do you build observability systems that provide deep insights into a distributed SQL engine without impacting performance? How do you benchmark a database that can scale infinitely and make those tools available to customers worldwide? How do you predict capacity needs for a system that can grow

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