Software Dev Engineer, RDS Open Source

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS's services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you'll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

RDS for Opensource runs the largest fleet of MySQL, Postgres & MariaDB databases in the world. We have challenging problems to solve in distributed systems, concurrency, database internals, caching, query optimization, languages, and performance engineering. We intend to be the world's best managed database, built by an excellent team, all while having fun.

You will be responsible for defining the development and testing standards, mentoring junior engineers and hiring for the team. You will work with business and other AWS teams and translate the requirements to technical deliverables and hold the bar very high on the quality of our product. A successful applicant must possess the ability to excel in an ambiguous environment, be smart to define the best possible architecture, have excellent software development skills, good testing aptitude, working knowledge of relational databases and distributed systems.

AWS values diverse experiences and encourages candidates to apply even if they don't meet all the preferred qualifications. The company offers ongoing events and learning experiences, including Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. AWS also provides mentorship, career growth opportunities, and values work-life harmony.

Join us to be part of a team that's changing the rules for relational databases and building the world's best managed database service!