Software Development Engineer II, Performance Insights
Amazon · Vancouver, Canada · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer based in Vancouver, Canada. The posting calls out experience with SQL, AWS, Distributed Systems, Observability. Compensation is listed at C$114,800–C$191,800 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Vancouver, Canada
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Apr 21, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersWe are looking for a highly-skilled, experienced, and motivated software engineer to help us in our endeavour to make AWS the best place to operate relational databases. The RDS Performance Monitoring team owns features that help customers monitor and tune the performance of their Aurora and RDS databases, and surface recommendations to determine when and where to take action. This includes the integrations with Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights and AWS frontier agents. This is a rare chance for you to be a part of a highly visible team working at the intersection of database performance and AI, helping customers manage their growing fleet of Aurora and RDS databases. To learn more about Amazon RDS and Aurora, visit: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rds/ Key job responsibilities You will be responsible for developing a product that captures and stores performance telemetry from Aurora and RDS databases and surfaces them to our customers. You will also be responsible for developing and operating agentic AI solutions that use that telemetry to troubleshoot and mitigate performance-related issues. This product operates on millions of instances, and helps our customers monitor and tune the performance of their databases through timely and relevant metrics, as well as recommendations. This is an area…