Software Development Engineer, Amazon

• 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
• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Desirable

• We are seeking a highly skilled, experienced, and motivated software engineer to join our mission to make AWS the best place to operate relational databases, especially in the world of agentic AI
• The RDS Backups team owns backups and disaster recovery features that help customers protect their data as their most valuable asset
• This is a rare opportunity to join a highly visible team that is delivering transformative solutions to ensure data durability, protection, and business continuity for RDS and Aurora customers
• You will have the opportunity and be responsible for designing, and developing various disaster recovery and data protection features regardless of the engine across various topologies (in-region, cross-region, cross-account, cross-zone)
• What you own is load-bearing for every production database on Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora
• When the next real disaster-recovery event happens, the code you wrote is what gets customers their data back
• This is an area that requires solving the hardest engineering challenges in distributed systems at massive scale
• As a customer-facing AWS service, our solutions have to be solid, scalable, efficient, and highly fault tolerant
• You will be responsible for all aspects of engineering, including development, testing, and deployment of these services
• AWS operates large-scale, mission-critical workloads, so you need to be comfortable taking ownership of the operational excellence of your service
• You'll work cross-team with other RDS and Aurora teams (storage, workflow orchestration, DB engine, RDS security) and will also have the opportunity to collaborate cross-org with other AWS Services (EBS, S3, AWS Backup)
• Finally, you're excited by the opportunity to learn about and help solve our customers' challenges
• In order to break new ground, we'll need to resolve ambiguity and innovate on behalf of our customers
• You understand that being passionate about an idea is different than taking it personally, and you believe that debate makes strong ideas even stronger
• RDS Backups is a Vancouver-based team inside AWS's Relational Database Service organization
• Every RDS and Aurora customer depends on our features, from a startup running a single RDS instance to enterprises running complex and multi-region disaster recovery for their most regulated workloads
• Our engineers own features end-to-end across control plane, data plane, and platform features
• This includes but not limited to customer facing APIs, workflow implementation, integration with each database engine, and operational excellence