Software Development Engineer, Aurora Control Plane (Level 5)
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 AWS, PostgreSQL, MySQL. 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
- May 11, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersDo you want to be part of a team that builds hyper-scaler database services in the cloud? Are you interested in revolutionizing the way people manage vast volumes of data in the cloud, impacting hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services? Amazon Aurora is a distributed, fault-tolerant database service, built with a self-healing storage system. Aurora provides unparalleled high-performance and availability at a global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility, at 1/10th the cost of commercial databases. Aurora has 5x the throughput of MySQL and 3x of PostgreSQL. We are one of the fastest-growing AWS services. Our business and engineering decisions have a widespread impact across some of the world's largest and fastest growing businesses. Our customers depend on the performance, stability and availability of our service to scale and support their mission-critical workloads. As an SDE II on the Aurora Open-Source Control Plane team, you will design and implement software components and enhance existing components to help us continuously improve and evolve to meet the growing demands of our customers. You have experience implementing scalable, fault-tolerant and resilient systems tooling. You have strong technical skills, are motivated and results-oriented. You are passionate about engineering robust…