Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Aurora Engineering
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Posted today
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- A successful candidate will bring deep technical and software expertise and ability to work within a fast moving, startup environment in a large company to deliver high quality code that has a broad business impact
- 4+ years of database engine development experience within a well-known database system
- Proficient in C++
- 12+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Desirable
- 12+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Experience in designing system components
- PostgreSQL internals knowledge
What the job involves
- Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and Postgres compatible, relational database service that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases
- It provides up to five times better performance than MySQL at a price point one tenth that of a commercial database while delivering similar performance and availability
- Amazon Aurora is powered by an auto-scaling, auto-healing, distributed storage cluster of massive world-wide scale
- Amazon Aurora engineering team is looking for experienced software engineers who are excited about building large scale systems spanning tens of thousands of servers, across multiple data-centers worldwide
- These are core systems development positions where you will own the design and development of significant software components critical to our industry leading database services architected for the cloud
- In this hands on position you will be asked to do everything from building rock-solid components to mentoring other engineers
- You need to not only be a top software developer with a good track record of delivering, but also excel in communication, leadership and customer focus
- This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast growing business and help shape the technology, product and the business
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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