Software Development Engineer, Aurora Storage
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 AWS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Distributed Systems. Compensation is listed at $168,100–$227,400 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Redmond, WA
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- May 11, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersAre you interested in building hyper-scale database services in the cloud? Do you want to revolutionize the way databases are built for the cloud ? Do you want to have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services? Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and Postgres compatible, relational database service that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. It provides up to five times better performance than MySQL at a price point one tenth that of a commercial database while delivering similar performance and availability. Amazon Aurora is powered by an auto-scaling, auto-healing, distributed storage cluster of massive world-wide scale. Amazon Aurora Global Database enables customers to replicate their data across multiple AWS Regions with sub-second replication lag, providing cross-region disaster recovery. It supports both MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility and allows customers to serve globally distributed read traffic with local latency while maintaining a single, consistent source of truth. Aurora Global Database is powered by Aurora's innovative storage-level replication technology. The Aurora Global Database team is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer who is excited about building globally distributed replication systems that…