SoftwareDevelopmentEngineer,RDSPlatform

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, and backup orchestration — systems that operate across millions of instances and must be resilient to failures at every layer. This requires solving hard distributed systems challenges at massive scale, where a single system serves the entire RDS fleet, performance cliffs are non-linear, and the blast radius of any issue is measured in customer impact across regions. As a foundational AWS platform, our solutions must be solid, scalable, efficient, and highly fault tolerant. You will own all aspects of engineering including development, testing, deployment, and operational excellence of your services. You will work across team boundaries on shared infrastructure challenges — evolving legacy architectures, building platform capabilities that extend to multiple AWS organizations, and right-sizing systems for the next decade of growth. You resolve ambiguity, innovate on behalf of customers, and believe that debate makes strong ideas stronger. About the team AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all