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Principal Engineer, Storage/Performance

Amazon.com Inc
  • Seattle, WA
    6 days ago

    Job 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.

    Key job responsibilities

    As a Principal Engineer on the Storage team, you will help build a high performance storage engine and storage service that is able to support all types of database workloads. You will collaborate with customers and leaders across DSQL and other database service teams to define the vision of Aurora DSQL and build a highly scalable and performant Storage system to help achieve the vision. You will be responsible for mentoring and coaching a high performing team of engineers which is a mix of generalists and storage experts. You will also work directly with customers to enable onboarding/adoption as well as with the product team to help build the roadmap.

    About the team

    The Storage team for Aurora DSQL owns the Storage engine and services that serve all read requests for DSQL. Alongside helping DSQL achieve its vision of virtually unlimited scale and the fastest sql database, the team also continues to build complex functionality to expand type support, including indexing capabilities. The team also builds the framework that allows pushing down query predicates to storage nodes to help improve query performance.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

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    Skills

    • Coachingunmatched
    • Distributed Databasesunmatched
    • High Availabilityunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Onboardingunmatched
    • Performance Managementunmatched
    • SQL Databasesunmatched
    • Scalable System Developmentunmatched
    • Software Patchesunmatched
    • Systems Administration/Managementunmatched

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