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Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Aurora Storage

at Amazon.com

📍 US, CA, East Palo Alto Unknown Posted April 14, 2026
Type Full-Time
Experience senior
Exp. Years Not specified
Education Not specified
Category Database Administration

As a Sr. Software Dev Engineer for Aurora Storage, you will build cloud database storage components for Amazon Aurora. The role emphasizes large-scale distributed systems, owning design/development, and collaborating across teams to deliver high-quality, highly available, always-on services.

  • Design and develop major software components for Aurora Storage
  • Build and operate large-scale distributed storage systems across data centers
  • Improve service performance, durability, cost, and security
  • Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain software solutions
  • Mentor other engineers and collaborate across teams

You will work on Amazon Aurora Storage, a distributed storage cluster with auto-scaling and auto-healing, and that is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. The engineering scope includes designing, implementing, testing, deploying, and maintaining software to improve service performance, durability, cost, and security in AWS cloud environments.

The ideal candidate is a senior software development engineer experienced in building large-scale distributed systems in the cloud, with deep expertise related to Amazon Aurora Storage. They can design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain highly available, always-on database service components and are strong in communication and engineering mentorship.

Designimplementtestdeploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performancedurabilitycostand securityBuild high-qualityhighly availablealways-on productsMentoring other engineers
Amazon AuroraAmazon Web Services (AWS)
building large scale systemsdistributed systemsdesign implement test deploy and maintainhighly availablealways-on productsperformancedurabilitycostsecuritymentoring other engineerscommunicationleadershipcustomer focusAmazon Aurora
build large scale systemsdistributed systemsdesignimplementtestdeploy and maintain software solutionstransform service performancedurabilitycostsecurityhigh-qualityhighly availablealways-on productsmentoring other engineerscommunicationleadershipcustomer focusAmazon Aurora
communicationleadershipcustomer focusmentoring other engineerscollaboration across diverse teams
Industry SaaS
Job Function Develop and operate cloud storage software for Amazon Aurora database services.
Role Subtype Platform Engineer
Tech Domains Amazon Web Services, Python, Java
Sr. Software Dev EngineerSenior Software Development EngineerSoftware EngineerAmazon AuroraAurora Storagerelational database serviceMySQLPostgresPostgreSQLdistributed storage clusterauto-scalingauto-healinglarge scale systemstens of thousands of serversmultiple data-centerscloudAWSAmazon Web ServicesDesignimplementtestdeploy and maintainhighly availablealways-on productsperformancedurabilitycostsecuritydistributed systemsmentoringcommunicationleadershipcustomer focusalways-on

Must have experience building distributed systems for cloud services at scale, Must demonstrate ability to design, implement, test, deploy and maintain software solutions

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