Software Development Engineer II, RDS Telemetry Platform
Amazon · Redmond, WA · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer based in Redmond, WA. The posting calls out experience with Java, C#, AWS, LLMs. 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
- Redmond, WA
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Apr 23, 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 Telemetry Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure for collecting, ingesting, and routing database telemetry across the RDS fleet, including a Data Lake for fleet-wide analysis. The team also develops automated engines that detect performance anomalies, diagnose root causes, and deliver tuning recommendations using both traditional and generative-AI techniques. 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 telemetry from Aurora and RDS databases and surfaces them to our customers through multiple downstream products. You will also be responsible for exploring and building innovative solutions that leverage this telemetry to help customers troubleshoot and optimize database performance and detect security threats. This product operates on millions of instances, and helps our customers monitor and tune the performance and security…