senior Software Engineer ic Bachelor's · Posted Jan 27, 2026
$168,100 – $227,400
USD per year

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
AI Summary
Design and develop core distributed database storage systems for Amazon Aurora at massive scale across global data centers. Own significant software components critical to cloud database services, from component development to mentoring engineers. Requires deep technical expertise in large-scale systems, strong delivery track record, and leadership capabilities.

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Job description

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Are 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…

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