This role at Amazon Web Services (AWS) focuses on innovating and providing solutions for relational databases at scale. The team is responsible for ensuring the availability and durability of the world's largest fleet of relational databases in the cloud. Candidates will tackle complex challenges related to distributed systems, high availability, and performance engineering. AWS values diverse experiences and encourages applicants from various backgrounds to apply.

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications
• 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
• Experience on highly concurrent, high throughput systems and knowledge of complex distributed systems
• Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
• Experience designing stateful Apache Flink applications utilizing CDC ingestion, checkpoint optimization, and exactly-once delivery into Apache Iceberg or similar lakehouse formats
• Proven ability to build REST APIs for lifecycle management and deploy high-throughput, low-latency workloads on EKS/Kubernetes

• Innovate and provide solutions for relational databases at scale.
• Ensure the availability and durability of AWS's fleet of relational databases.
• Solve complex database problems related to growth and scaling.
• Collaborate with team members to brainstorm and mentor.
• Develop software solutions that meet high performance and availability requirements.

• 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.