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Software Development Engineer II, RDS Telemetry Platform

Amazon

Location

Redmond, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

6/19/2026

Compensation

$143,700 - $194,400 per year

Undergraduate with 2+ Years of Experience
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Job description

The role is for a highly-skilled software engineer to join the RDS Telemetry Platform team at AWS, focusing on improving relational database operations. The team builds infrastructure for collecting and analyzing database telemetry, utilizing both traditional and generative-AI techniques. This position involves developing solutions that help customers optimize database performance and security. Candidates will tackle engineering challenges in distributed systems at scale while ensuring operational excellence.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#
  • 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

Responsibilities

  • Develop a product that captures and stores telemetry from Aurora and RDS databases.
  • Explore and build innovative solutions leveraging telemetry to help customers troubleshoot and optimize database performance.
  • Detect security threats through timely and relevant metrics and recommendations.
  • Take ownership of the operational excellence of the service.
  • Collaborate with the team to resolve ambiguity and innovate on behalf of customers.

Benefits

  • 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.

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