Principal Software Engineer

Job description

Are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in the cloud? Do you want to revolutionize the way databases are built for the cloud? Do you want to have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services? Amazon Aurora Engine team is looking for experienced technical experts in relational databases, who are excited about building large scale database systems that run across thousands of servers across multiple datacenters worldwide. These are core systems development positions where you will own the design and development of significant system software components critical to our industry leading database services architected for the cloud. Amazon Aurora is an exciting new area of innovation for AWS, and the MySQL-compatible and PostgreSQL-compatible editions of Amazon Aurora are built on one of the most active code bases in the Opensource community. We are one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon Web Services. As an Amazon Web Services Principal Engineer, you’ll be a technical leader. You’ll help establish technical standards and drive Amazon’s overall technical architecture and engineering practices. You’ll work on Amazon’s hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs. You’ll think globally…