Sr Software Development Engineer, AWS Aurora Database
Amazon · Redmond, WA · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in Redmond, WA. The posting calls out experience with AWS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Distributed Systems. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent. Compensation is listed at $168,100–$227,400 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Redmond, WA
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Jan 27, 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 Storage platform team is looking for experienced software engineers who are excited about building large scale systems spanning tens of thousands of servers, across multiple data-centers worldwide. These are core systems development positions where you will own the design and development of significant software components critical to our industry leading database services architected for the cloud. In this hands on position you will be asked to do everything from building rock-solid components to mentoring other engineers. You need to not only…