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 Telemetry Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure for collecting, ingesting, and routing database telemetry across the RDS fleet, including a Data Lake for fleet-wide analysis. The team also develops automated engines that detect performance anomalies, diagnose root causes, and deliver tuning recommendations using both traditional and generative-AI techniques. This is a rare chance for you to be a part of a highly visible team working at the intersection of database performance and AI, helping customers manage their growing fleet of Aurora and RDS databases.

To learn more about Amazon RDS and Aurora, visit: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rds/

Key job responsibilities

You will be responsible for developing a product that captures and stores telemetry from Aurora and RDS databases and surfaces them to our customers through multiple downstream products.

You will also be responsible for exploring and building innovative solutions that leverage this telemetry to help customers troubleshoot and optimize database performance and detect security threats. This product operates on millions of instances, and helps our customers monitor and tune the performance and security of their databases through timely and relevant metrics, as well as recommendations.

This is an area that requires solving the hardest engineering challenges in distributed systems at massive scale. As a customer-facing AWS service, our solutions have to be super solid, scalable, efficient, and highly fault tolerant. You will be responsible for all aspects of engineering, including development, testing and deployment of these services. AWS operates large-scale, mission critical workloads, so you need to be comfortable taking ownership of the operational excellence of your service.

Finally, you're excited by the opportunity to learn about and help solve our customers' challenges. In order to break new ground, we'll need to resolve ambiguity and innovate on behalf of our customers. You understand that being passionate about an idea is different than taking it personally, and you believe that debate makes strong ideas even stronger.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- 2+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design experience

- 1+ years of contributing to new and current systems architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent

- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

- Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals, including transformer architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization techniques

- Experience in debugging, profiling, and implementing software engineering best practices in large-scale systems

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Redmond - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually