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. 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.

This requires solving 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. 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. You resolve ambiguity innovate on behalf of customers and believe that debate makes strong ideas stronger.

About the team
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- 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

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors 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 Amazons 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. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN BC Vancouver - 114800.00 - 191800.00 CAD annually