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# Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Aurora DSQL

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $168,100.0 - $227,400.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Computer Programming, Data Manipulation Languages, Dataspaces, Software Design Patterns, Distributed Systems, Integrated Development Environments, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, Backup and Restore, Alwayson, Change Data Capture, Information Technology, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control, Programming Languages
- **Published:** June 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/A7D08E0C65BB47A99BE23B4EE725221F/job/

## About the Role

* 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, * 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
 * Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

## Description

This role is with the Data Ecosystem team which is responsible for building services that customers use to move data into and out of DSQL. This includes Backup & Restore, Point-in-Time Recovery, Change Data Capture (CDC), Bulk Import & Export, Streaming Integrations and Async Data Jobs (DDL, DML). In this role you will have the opportunity to apply your deep understanding of distributed systems architecture and design principles and will be required to identify and analyze complex problems, devise effective solutions and optimize performance and scalability. The team develops in Rust and uses CDK (Amazon Cloud Development Kit) to define cloud infrastructure., Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. You'll bring a passion for innovation, data, search, analytics, and distributed systems. You'll also:

 * Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
 * Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
 * Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
 * Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.

A day in the life

As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you'll create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects. You'll also:

 * Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
 * Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
 * Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
 * Work in a startup-like development environment, where you're always working on the most important stuff.

About the team

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.


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