Aurora Storage, internally known as Grover, is a highly available, self-healing, and six-way replicated storage service purpose-built for cloud databases. Unlike other relational databases, Aurorau2019s separation of compute and storage enables offloading several critical functions such as transaction redo logging, crash recovery, and backup/restore to Grover. Grover also enables customer-facing features facilitating data recovery, logical replication, and improved performance. Examples include Aurora Global Database, Backtrack (u201crewindingu201d a database cluster to a specific point in time), Continuous Backups, and Fast Clones. Furthermore, Grover supports additional AWS database services, such as Amazon DocumentDB, Neptune, and Timestream, enabling these services to further benefit from its durability, scale, performance, and features. Utility Computing (UC) AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations u2014 from foundational services such as Amazonu2019s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSu2019s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, youu2019ll 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 You are passionate about designing large scale and resilient storage systems, innovating and supporting new technological architectures. Youu2019ll think globally when building systems, ensuring we build high performing, scalable systems that fit well together. We are looking for pragmatic visionaries who can translate customer needs into workable technology solutions. Your expertise is deep and broad; youu2019re hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs. As a Principal Engineer on our team, you will work with leaders across database services organization to define our business and architecture vision. You will balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices. You will own the architecture, existing and future, for Aurora storage layer. You will share your updates with AWS leadership, get buy-in, and work with all stakeholder teams to maintain industry leadership. You will be the default mentor for all engineers on the team, establish and demand best practices through your engineering leadership. You will immerse yourself in your teamu2019s entire software development lifecycle to have a hands-on impact. 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