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, AWS, Distributed Systems, Performance Optimization. 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 24, 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 (https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/dsql/) is building revolutionary transactional database technology, delivering innovative customer experiences in the areas of automated operations, global scale, query processing, and storage. 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 with the Data Ecosystem team which is responsible for building services that customers use to move data into and out of DSQL. This includes Backup, Restore, Bulk Import, Export, Change Data Capture (CDC), Streaming Integrations and Async Data Jobs (DDL, DML). In this role you will have the opportunity to apply your deep understanding of distributed systems architecture and design principles and will be required to identify and analyze complex problems, devise effective solutions and optimize performance and scalability. The team develops in Rust and uses CDK (Amazon Cloud Development Kit) to define cloud infrastructure. Key job responsibilities Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments…