Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Aurora DSQL

The Aurora DSQL team at AWS is building revolutionary transactional database technology, delivering innovative customer experiences in automated operations, global scale, query processing and storage. The team focuses on developing backend systems that manage and orchestrate distributed SQL database clusters deployment, scaling, and maintenance.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Aurora DSQL Control Plane team, you will:

• Build services ensuring business continuity through robust backup solutions
• Develop large-scale distributed systems and web services
• Implement automated database operations and maintenance capabilities
• Work in an agile software development environment
• Design and operate highly available distributed systems
• Collaborate across diverse teams to impact global customer base
• Solve complex technical challenges at every stack layer
• Build high-quality, always-on products
• Participate in design discussions and code reviews
• Drive business decisions with technical input

The role offers unique opportunities to work with distributed systems while building solutions that eliminate operational complexity for customers. You'll be part of AWS Utility Computing (UC), which provides foundational services like S3 and EC2, along with continuous product innovations.

The team culture emphasizes knowledge sharing, mentorship, and career development. We provide personalized development plans, learning opportunities, and thoughtful project assignments to help team members grow into well-rounded engineers.

This position offers competitive compensation with a base pay range of $151,300 to $261,500 per year depending on location, plus equity, sign-on payments, and comprehensive benefits.