RDS Platform Engineer: Intelligent Patching & Scheduling

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 117,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's RDS Platform scheduling team owns the patching scheduling domain for all RDS and Aurora engines, building and operating the end-to-end platform that automatically schedules, orchestrates, and safely deploys database engine upgrades and OS patches at scale worldwide.

As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you will tackle high-impact, customer-facing challenges, aiming for zero-downtime maintenance and exploring AI-powered scheduling, near-zero downtime upgrades, GenAI policies,

Qualifications

• 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

Skills

Software development

System design experience

Programming language knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon's RDS Platform scheduling team owns the patching scheduling domain for all RDS and Aurora engines, building and operating the end-to-end platform that automatically schedules, orchestrates, and safely deploys database engine upgrades and OS patches at scale worldwide.

As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you will tackle high-impact, customer-facing challenges, aiming for zero-downtime maintenance and exploring AI-powered scheduling, near-zero downtime upgrades, GenAI policies,