The Transactional Data Storage org builds data platforms which are at the core
of Amazon’s consumer and digital businesses. Our OLTP storage platform, Sable,
processes billions of transactions every day around the globe. We own multiple
tier-1/mission-critical services fueling the growth of Amazon businesses to
store customer orders, catalog and product information, shopping cart, Kindle
device information, and hundreds of other business critical data-sets. The
performance and availability of our platform is critical to the reliability of
the Amazon brand. We run some of the largest fleets and the highest throughput
services at Amazon. We partner with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to leverage
technologies built for cloud customers, and to offer technologies we invent
through AWS channels to the broader market.
We are looking for a passionate engineer who understands distributed systems at
scale and is interested to learn about database systems from database engine
design to operating a tier-1 flagship product. This engineer will work with PEs
and other engineers to enhance the Control Plane which determines how the system
scales to support millions of requests, how it recovers from disasters, how does
it perform cross regions data movement and many other admin operations. This
role will contribute to design, development, testing and operations for Sable
control plane. An engineer in this role will have strong sense of ownership,
high bar for operational excellence and proven record of solving hard technical
problems from design to delivery.
