Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Aurora DSQL
Amazon · Seattle, WA · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer based in Seattle, WA. The posting calls out experience with Rust, SQL, AWS, Serverless. Compensation is listed at $143,700–$194,400 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Apr 15, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersDoes working on the latest distributed systems and database technology excite you? The Aurora DSQL team at AWS is building revolutionary transactional database technology, delivering innovative customer experiences in the areas of automated operations, global scale, query processing, and storage. Amazon Aurora DSQL (https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/dsql/) is a serverless, distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. Aurora DSQL provides active-active high availability, delivering strong data consistency designed for 99.99% single-Region and 99.999% multi-Region availability. Aurora DSQL automatically manages and scales system resources, so you don't have to worry about maintenance downtime, provisioning, patching, or upgrading infrastructure. If contributing to the design and development of a new, first-of-its-kind database excites you, the role on this new initiative may perfectly fit your career aspirations. Join us during this formative period of the product and be a leader in shaping the future of databases at Amazon and beyond! This role is within the Control Plane team which is responsible for managing heat distribution across the dataplane and ensuring health signals for dataplane components have quick responses to ensure scalability for the database offering. In this role you will have the opportunity to apply your deep understanding of distributed systems…