- 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 programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including objectoriented design
- 8+ years of professional software development experience.
- Experience in any of the following: Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Data Engineering or DevOps
- 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
- Exposure to largescale distributed storage and database systems (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, Graph Databases).
- Delivered software in an environment that utilises Agile methodologies like SCRUM or Kanban.
- Hands on experience with AWS services such as RDS, EC2, Dynamo DB, CloudWatch.
Senior Software Development Engineer, Aurora Control Plane - Dublin, Ireland - Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited
Description
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?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.
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.
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 Metadata and Management engineering team focuses on building scalable services and tools to support the rapid growth of Aurora.
As an Engineer on the team you will design and implement services and intelligent operational tooling to allow Amazon Aurora to scale faster, with emphasis on reliability, deployment velocity and operational effectiveness.
We are looking for Software Development Engineers who have built a lot of software – shipped products and created platforms, tools, Ops Console 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.
You are naturally enthusiastic about learning new technologies and industry trends and are excited by the idea of solving hard technical challenges.
Come, join us in reinventing database systems for the cloud
About the team
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS's services and features apart in the industry.
As a member of the UC organization, you'll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS.
Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
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When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Dublin, D, IRL
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