Description
We’re building hyper‑scale database services for the cloud. As a software engineering leader on the Amazon Aurora team, you will design, build, and ship reliable, scalable, high‑performance components that power millions of AWS customers. You will lead multiple teams, hire and mentor engineers, and drive technical strategy for the PostgreSQL‑compatible edition of Amazon Aurora.
Aurora combines enterprise‑class performance and availability with the ease of use of RDS. The team tackles challenging problems in distributed systems, query optimization, concurrency, caching, and performance engineering.
Responsibilities
Lead design, implementation, and ownership of Aurora’s core system components.
Translate high‑level technical requirements into executable project plans.
Mentor and grow a high‑performing engineering team.
Collaborate with product, program, and other technical teams to define and deliver new features.
Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of the service.
Qualifications
Knowledge of engineering best practices across the software development lifecycle.
Proven experience managing engineering teams.
Hands‑on experience building and scaling multi‑tier web services.
Strong analytical and problem‑diagnosis skills.
Experience in query processing, optimization, or high‑performance systems is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience communicating requirements and designs to users, technical teams, and senior leadership.
Recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and coaching software engineers to improve their effectiveness.
Benefits
Huge impact: work on a service used by millions of customers.
Gratification: solve problems that many developers don’t yet know exist.
Ownership: quickly become responsible for key components.
Learning: take on challenges of large‑scale fault‑tolerant systems.
Innovation: invent every day based on customer feedback.
Fun: collaborate with engineers who enjoy complex problems in a collaborative environment.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer. We believe passionately that a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify, and build. Contact us if you need accommodations during the application process.
Company – Amazon Development Centre Ireland LimitedJob ID: A10378245
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