Software Development Engineer, RDS Platform
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Nice To Haves
- 3+ 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
Responsibilities
- Build and operate systems that protect customer data and ensure RDS control plane reliability. This includes database access governance, event-driven architectures, disaster recovery automation, and backup orchestration — systems that operate across millions of instances and must be resilient to failures at every layer.
- Solve hard distributed systems challenges at massive scale, where a single system serves the entire RDS fleet, performance cliffs are non-linear, and the blast radius of any issue is measured in customer impact across regions. As a foundational AWS platform, our solutions must be solid, scalable, efficient, and highly fault tolerant.
- Own all aspects of engineering including development, testing, deployment, and operational excellence of your services.
- 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.
- Resolve ambiguity, innovate on behalf of customers, and believe that debate makes strong ideas stronger.
Benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance)
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
- Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
- paid time off
- other resources to improve health and well-being
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
