Amazon

Sourcing Recruiter, AWS Database & Analytics Recruiting

Amazon$82K — $126K *
Staffing
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of technical recruiting experience in a high-volume, competitive environment
  • Proven ability to build effective candidate sourcing and closing strategies
  • Experience recruiting mid to senior-level candidates

Responsibilities

  • Develop sourcing strategies for senior and principal-level technical roles
  • Identify candidates through in-depth research and creative sourcing techniques
  • Facilitate sourcing sessions with engineering teams to refine candidate profiles
  • Maintain accurate candidate records and track sourcing metrics
  • Collaborate with hiring managers to translate technical requirements into search strategies
  • Contribute to sourcing best practices and process improvements

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Generous paid time off and parental leave
  • Support for adoption and surrogacy
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and mental health support services
Full Job Description
We're looking for a Sourcing Recruiter who is energized by the hunt - someone who thrives in niche, hyper-competitive technical markets and knows how to find, engage, and inspire passive talent that most recruiters can't reach. This isn't requisition-filling. This is pipeline architecture for some of the most specialized engineering roles in cloud infrastructure.

Key job responsibilities

-Build sourcing strategies from scratch for senior and principal-level roles across database engines, distributed systems, query optimization, replication, and open-source ecosystems.

-Find people others can't - through deep research, creative sourcing campaigns, target company mapping, and referral engineering.

-Lead sourcing sessions with engineering teams to extract signal, generate referrals, and build conviction around candidate profiles.

-Own pipeline health - maintain accurate candidate records, track sourcing metrics, and communicate progress and market insights to stakeholders with clarity and consistency.

-Partner closely with hiring managers to understand deeply technical requirements and translate them into actionable search strategies.

-Raise the bar for the team - contribute to sourcing best practices, training, and process improvements that make the whole org better.

A day in the life

You open your day reviewing pipeline movement and market signals. By mid-morning you're deep in a sourcing session with a Neptune engineering lead, mapping the graph database talent landscape and identifying candidates working on adjacent open-source projects. After lunch, you're engaging a passive candidate who's contributed to PostgreSQL internals - crafting outreach that speaks to the specific problems Aurora is solving. You close the day syncing with your recruiting partners on strategy adjustments, sharing what's working, and updating stakeholders on pipeline health.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of technical recruiting in high volume and high hiring bar environment experience

- Experience building candidate sourcing and closing strategies

- Experience recruiting for mid-senior level talent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects and client relationships

- Experience creating, measuring and scaling workflow among candidates, hiring managers and the recruiting team

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, CA, San Diego - 72,600.00 - 126,100.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Austin - 72,000.00 - 126,100.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 126,100.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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Net Income
$21.3 billion
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
+28.1%
Revenue
$386 billion
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