💼 Full-Time Position

Software Development Engineer, RDS Platform

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Amazon
📍 Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Location
Vancouver, Canada
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Posted
June 13, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Description
We are looking for a highly-skilled, experienced, and motivated software engineer to help us in our endeavour to make AWS the best place to operate relational databases. The RDS Platform team builds and operates the foundational infrastructure that powers every RDS and Aurora control plane operation — from the metadata layer that tracks millions of customer databases, to the backup and disaster recovery systems that ensure data durability for customers. This is a rare opportunity to work across cross-cutting technologies spanning database internals, distributed storage systems, and high-availability architecture — building systems that customers depend on to reliably create, operate, protect, and recover their databases at any scale.

Key job responsibilities
You will build and operate systems that protect customer data and ensure RDS control plane reliability. This includes database access governance, event-driven architectures, disaster recovery automation, ...