Software Development Engineer, RDS Platform

Software Development Engineer, RDS Platform

We are looking for a highly-skilled, experienced, and motivated software engineer to help us in our endeavour to make AWS the best place to operate relational databases. The RDS Platform team builds and operates the foundational infrastructure that powers every RDS and Aurora control plane operation — from the metadata layer that tracks millions of customer databases, to the backup and disaster recovery systems that ensure data durability for customers. This is a rare opportunity to work across cross-cutting technologies spanning database internals, distributed storage systems, and high-availability architecture — building systems that customers depend on to reliably create, operate, protect, and recover their databases at any scale.

Key job responsibilities

• You will build and operate systems that protect customer data and ensure RDS control plane reliability, including database access governance, event-driven architectures, disaster recovery automation, and backup orchestration.
• These systems operate across millions of instances and must be resilient to failures at every layer.
• You will solve hard distributed systems challenges at massive scale, ensuring solutions are solid, scalable, efficient, and highly fault tolerant.
• You will own all aspects of engineering, including development, testing, deployment, and operational excellence of your services.
• You will work across team boundaries on shared infrastructure challenges, evolving legacy architectures, building platform capabilities that extend to multiple AWS organizations, and right-sizing systems for the next decade of growth.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience (non-internship)
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability, scaling) of new and existing systems (non-internship)
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.

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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). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. 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.