This job is with Amazon, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Looking to be part of a team building hyper-scale database services in the cloud? Do you want to revolutionize the way people manage vast volumes of data in the cloud where you have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services?

Aurora is a distributed, fault-tolerant database service, leveraging a self-healing storage system which performs up to five times faster than standard MySQL databases and three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases. Aurora is one of the fastest-growing AWS services, with business and engineering decisions having a widespread impact across many of the world's fastest growing businesses! Our customers depend on the performance of our services to scale and support their mission-critical workloads.

As an Engineer in the team you will design and implement major database components to allow Amazon Aurora to scale and perform for the growing customer demands under the project of Aurora Global Database. We are looking for Software Development Engineers who have built a lot of software - shipped products and created control planes, tools and modules. You should be passionate about optimizing the software development experience at a very large scale, using your strong technical skills and motivation to achieve results.

You are naturally enthusiastic about learning new technologies and industry trends and are excited by the idea of solving hard technical challenges. You are empathetic and curious, and will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we are building. Delivering software features and improvements to major portions of your team's software.

Working with customers, stakeholders, and peers in order to understand and deliver the right solutions.

Designing software solutions to enable current features or improve existing ones.

Operational work to solve customer problems and enhance your team's operations.





Contribute to the full software development lifecycle, including scoping, design, code, code reviews, testing, deployment and maintenance of the team's software. You will have a launch buddy, an engineer who will help you navigate through this processes offering you help and mentorship.

We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal life. 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.

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Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. AWS values diverse experiences.

Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve. AWS values curiosity and connection.





Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer.

That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D; insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. CAN, ON, Toronto - 150,700.00 - 251,700.00 CAD annually

📌 Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Aurora Control Plane, Aurora Security (Toronto)
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