Software Dev Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define development and testing standards for the Aurora Control Plane team
• Mentor junior engineers and participate in hiring processes
• Translate business requirements into high-quality technical deliverables
• Solve complex challenges in distributed systems, concurrency, and database internals
• Improve performance, availability, and maintainability of Aurora databases

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• 2+ years of experience in design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
• 3+ years of experience in the Video Games Industry (supporting title development, release, or live ops)
• Proficiency in at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience across the full software development life cycle, including code reviews, build processes, and operations
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field
• Working knowledge of relational databases and distributed systems

About the Company

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. The AWS Aurora Control Plane team works on cutting-edge relational database technology, solving deep engineering problems in caching, query optimization, and performance engineering to provide best-in-class cloud database services.