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 build and
operate large record storage, data transformations and data tiering
capabilities. They will work across data plane and control plane components to
holistically design and build regionally flexible, cost effective storage with
advanced management capabilities. 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.
