Software Dev Engineer II, Software Dev Engineer, AWS Distributed SQL

6 months ago


Vancouver, Canada Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC Full time
Does the idea of building a revolutionary new transactional database technology excite you? The Distributed SQL team at AWS is focused on providing Amazon customers with new database services that will transform how they design, operate, and scale core business applications that can adapt to the needs of nascent new business or scale to billions of operations for the largest global companies. If this challenge excites you, we would love to talk to you about joining our team.

We are looking to innovate on behalf of our customers and bring them the best experience possible while delivering high availability, performance and scalability. We seek an innovative Software Development Engineer to build a database performance benchmark platform and workloads for our new distributed SQL service. This role involves identifying critical performance and customer needs, designing workloads to benchmark the service, and driving continuous improvement. You will significantly contribute to the development lifecycle by providing actionable insights that influence design, development, and deployment of a new initiative within AWS. The ideal candidate should have experience in performance engineering, transactional databases, and distributed computing systems.

This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast-growing business and help shape the technology powering Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and everything in between. You will bring deep technical, algorithmic and coding expertise with the ability to work within a fast moving and collaborative environment in the industry leading cloud company to deliver a broad business impact. If this sounds exciting to you - come build the future with us

About the team
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity)conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfilment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Vancouver, BC, CAN

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 1+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1+ Years of experience with distributed systems with gained knowledge on performance and concurrency engineering.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ 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



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