The Aurora organization is looking for an expert in performance engineering to deliver the optimization of open source and cloud native databases. You will build upon AWS’ advanced infrastructure innovations in compute, storage, networking and deliver software optimizations that fully exploits the cloud capabilities.

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
By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to lead the innovation and deliver high performing database releases that power Aurora’s performance. As a senior engineer of the Aurora Performance Engineering Team, you will be tasked to lead and participate in efforts around performance bottleneck analysis, improvements in software driven by new hardware, benchmarking efforts, automated performance regression testing, workload optimizations and capacity sizing. You will play an instrumental role in driving the performance roadmap to deliver cost-effective and scalable database services. In this role you will use and further develop your deep knowledge in areas including experiment design, implementation, and data analysis. You will innovate using machine learning techniques to understand customer workload patterns and identify specific optimizations to improve overall application performance.


A day in the life
You will work with the Aurora engineering teams and customers to analyze workloads and engineer solutions to drive performance improvements.

About the team
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the pioneer and recognized leader in the Cloud. We take databases to their limits - our customers rely on Aurora MySQL and Aurora PostgreSQL databases for their business and due to our scale, we solve challenges no other database environment sees. We are creatively and disruptively solving some of the most complex database problems related to immense growth, scaling, high performance and high availability requirements.