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# Sr. Software Development Engineer, Aamazon RDS SQL Server

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Redmond, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $168,100.0 - $227,400.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Code Review, Computer Programming, Databases, Software Design Patterns, Distributed Systems, Microsoft SQL Server, Software Engineering, Alwayson, State Machines, Amazon Relational Database Service, Information Technology, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control, Programming Languages
- **Published:** June 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/27732770/Sr-Software-Development-Engineer-Aamazon-Rds-Sql-Server-Washington-Redmond-7375

## About the Role

The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) team is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer who loves to dive in and solve fundamental Computer Science and Systems problems around performance, timing, state machine logic and distributed systems algorithms. Candidates need to have a strong sense of ownership, passion to provide a great customer experience and excellent troubleshooting skills even when in high-pressure situations. If you'd like to be a part of creating always-on databases in the AWS cloud, this is the job for you!, 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

Preferred Qualifications

 - 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



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