Do you think innovating for customers and providing solutions for scale, availability and durability, while learning from ever growing fleet of RDS deployments at Amazon Web Service (AWS) interesting?

Amazon is breaking new ground and changing the rules for relational databases. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are the public cloud. AWS commands a majority of the world's public cloud traffic, serving customers at ultra large scale, and this volume is growing exponentially every day. At Amazon/AWS, we take databases to their limits. Due to our scale, we see issues that no other RDBMS customers see. We are creatively and disruptively solving some of the most complex database problems related to immense growth, scaling, leveraging the cloud, extremely high performance and high availability requirements. Do these types of challenges excite you? Do you want to part of the core group that's responsible for innovation at the file system and storage layer of the world's largest fleet of relational databases on cloud? If you’re an engineer who want to be significant part of this core group, come on board!

We have challenging problems to solve in distributed systems, concurrency, high availability, durability, performance, languages, and performance engineering. We intend to be the world's best and most reliable database, built by an excellent team, all while having fun - come join us on the journey!

Position
Amazon is looking for an experienced Sr Systems Developer for RDS Storage team. As part of the team, you will be given the chance to have a significant impact on our storage layer, our business and most importantly our customers.

If you are passionate about block I/O and file systems, have deep technical knowledge and want to build solutions to challenging problems that directly affect millions of people: there may be no better place than Amazon for you to impact the world!

You will be responsible for the storage layer of the Amazon RDS software stack, managing the block I/O and file system development.


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 fulfillment. 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.



Key job responsibilities
1. Scope, plan, and deliver complex technical projects end-to-end
2. Collaborating across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams
3. Mentoring junior engineers and promoting engineering best practices
4. Successful product delivery with focus on quality, performance, and reliability
5. Advocating for engineering excellence and continuous improvement in team processes and outcomes