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# Software Development Engineer, Amazon Aurora DSQL

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Salary:** $143,700.0 - $194,400.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Software Applications, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Computer Programming, Software Design Patterns, Distributed Systems, Perl (Programming Language), Network Control, Object-Oriented Software Development, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Multithreading, System Availability, Information Technology, Non-relational Database, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control, Serverless Computing
- **Published:** August 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gl04za

## About the Role

An ideal candidate has expertise in software architecture and large-scale design patterns, experience with both relational and non-relational database systems, experience with platform engineering, proficiency in Rust programming, and a background in designing and operating highly available distributed systems. In addition, they thrive on creative and collaborative problem solving and also enjoy the challenge of operating services at AWS scale., 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

 - 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience

 - 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience

 - Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

 - Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

 - 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

## Description

Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. Aurora DSQL provides active-active high availability, delivering strong data consistency designed for 99.99% single-Region and 99.999% multi-Region availability. Aurora DSQL automatically

manages and scales system resources, so you don't have to worry about maintenance downtime, provisioning, patching, or upgrading infrastructure.

We are looking for passionate and talented Software Development Engineers to join us in innovating on this new service. With a growing customer base, we have an exciting charter ahead of us that includes solving highly complex engineering problems. We are seeking an engineer to join the control plane and platform team to contribute to building

our cellular platform, ensuring seamless scaling of our product; define and implement service APIs that will influence how customers interact with the service; and work on projects that secure and embed Aurora DSQL into the overall AWS ecosystem.


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