Principal Software Engineer - Aurora Storage

Job Description

As a Principal Software Engineer for Aurora Storage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will be at the forefront of designing and developing large-scale, resilient storage systems. Aurora Storage is a highly available, self-healing, and six-way replicated storage service purpose-built for cloud databases. Unlike other relational databases, Aurora’s separation of compute and storage enables offloading several critical functions such as transaction redo logging, crash recovery, and backup/restore to Aurora. Aurora also enables customer-facing features facilitating data recovery, logical replication, and improved performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop large-scale, resilient storage systems.
• Innovate and support new technological architectures.
• Translate customer needs into workable technology solutions.
• Produce both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.
• Work with leaders across the database services organization to define business and architecture vision.
• Own the architecture, existing and future, for the Aurora storage layer.
• Mentor engineers on the team and establish best practices.
• Engage in the entire software development lifecycle to have a hands-on impact.

About You

You are passionate about designing large-scale and resilient storage systems, innovating and supporting new technological architectures. You think globally when building systems, ensuring high performance and scalability. You are a pragmatic visionary who can translate customer needs into workable technology solutions. Your expertise is deep and broad; you’re hands-on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.

Basic Qualifications

• Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience in professional software development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture).

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance

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Inclusive Team Culture

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Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify, and build.