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Posted date: Jun 23, 2025
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Location: Seattle, WA
Estimated salary: $206,400
Range: $151,300 - $261,500
Description
Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. Aurora DSQL provides active-active high availability, providing strong data consistency designed for 99.99% single-Region and 99.999% multi-Region availability. Aurora DSQL automatically manages and scales system resources, so you don't have to worry about maintenance downtime and provisioning, patching, or upgrading infrastructure.The Query Processing (QP) team is responsible for planning and executing SQL statements in the most efficient way possible. The QP team owns everything in the life cycle of a SQL statement like Parsing, Analysis (syntax and semantic), Rewriting, Planning (Optimizer) and Execution, and working with custom built Storage.
An ideal candidate has experience building databases and/or large stateful cloud services, is able to dive into complex problems, and is able to invent simple and elegant solutions for the same. They are able to design, implement and deliver cutting edge software systems. They thrive on creative and collaborative problem solving, and also enjoy the challenge of operating services at AWS scale.
Basic qualifications
• 5+ years of experience in developing and working with database internals.
• Must have led projects that required working across teams with multiple engineers influencing architecture and design of components.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Must be very strong in computer science fundamentals like data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis.
• Programming experience in C and/or Rust.
• Strong written and communication skills.
Preferred qualifications
• Experience building extremely high volume and highly scalable services.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Experience in building RDBMS kernels.
• PostgreSQL familiarity and Internals knowledge.
• Systems programming experience.
• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Extended Qualifications
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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