The software engineer will join the RDS Telemetry Platform team, focusing on developing infrastructure for collecting and analyzing database telemetry across the RDS fleet. This role involves building innovative solutions to help customers optimize database performance and detect security threats. The engineer will tackle complex engineering challenges in distributed systems at scale, ensuring operational excellence for customer-facing AWS services. The position offers an opportunity to work at the intersection of database performance and AI, contributing to a highly visible team.

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design experience
• 1+ years of contributing to new and current systems architecture and design experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience
• Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals
• Experience in debugging, profiling, and implementing software engineering best practices in large-scale systems

• Develop a product that captures and stores telemetry from Aurora and RDS databases
• Surface telemetry data to customers through multiple downstream products
• Explore and build innovative solutions leveraging telemetry to help customers troubleshoot and optimize database performance
• Detect security threats using telemetry data
• Ensure the product operates efficiently on millions of instances
• Take ownership of the operational excellence of the service
• Resolve ambiguity and innovate on behalf of customers

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.