Senior Distributed SQL Engineer for Cloud DB

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon’s AWS Distributed SQL team in Seattle is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to design and implement high‑performance distributed data and transaction processing for the Aurora DSQL data plane. You’ll contribute to scalability, reliability, and cloud deployment in a fast‑moving environment.

Join a team that mentors engineers, reviews designs, and collaborates across AWS to push innovative database technologies from concept to production.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and deliver state-of-the-art distributed, high-performance data and transaction processing algorithms and solutions.
• Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant system running in the cloud.

Skills

Software dev experience

Programming experience

System design lead

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Job description

Amazon’s AWS Distributed SQL team in Seattle is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to design and implement high‑performance distributed data and transaction processing for the Aurora DSQL data plane. You’ll contribute to scalability, reliability, and cloud deployment in a fast‑moving environment.

Join a team that mentors engineers, reviews designs, and collaborates across AWS to push innovative database technologies from concept to production.