Aurora Storage is a highly available, self-healing, and six-way replicated storage service purpose-built for cloud databases. Unlike other relational databases, Aurora’s separation of compute and storage enables offloading several critical functions such as transaction redo logging, crash recovery, and backup/restore. Aurora Storage also enables customer-facing features facilitating data recovery, logical replication, and improved performance. Examples include Aurora Global Database, Backtrack (“rewinding” a database cluster to a specific point in time), Continuous Backups, and Fast Clones.
Utility Computing (UC)
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.

Key job responsibilities
You are passionate about designing large scale and resilient storage systems, innovating and supporting new technological architectures. You’ll think globally when building systems, ensuring we build high performing, scalable systems that fit well together. We are looking for pragmatic visionaries who can translate customer needs into workable technology solutions. Your expertise is deep and broad; you’re hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs. As a Principal Engineer on our team, you will work with leaders across database services organization to define our business and architecture vision. You will balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices. You will own the architecture, existing and future, for Aurora storage layer. You will share your updates with AWS leadership, get buy-in, and work with all stakeholder teams to maintain industry leadership. You will be the default mentor for all engineers on the team, establish and demand best practices through your engineering leadership. You will immerse yourself in your team’s entire software development lifecycle to have a hands-on impact. You’ll strive for simplicity, and demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment. You will take on the most challenging design and development problems personally and lead by example to deliver exceptional results that reflect a keen understanding of our customers’ needs and our business vision.

About the team

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Basic Qualifications

10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
Experience creating architectural vision
Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture)

Preferred Qualifications

Experience influencing groups outside their own VP from architecture perspective.

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