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Software Development Engineer, Transactional Services (Database & Distributed Systems)

Amazon· AWS / Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.
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Seattle, WA$143.7k - $194.4kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Software Development Engineer to work on an in-house distributed database system powering AWS services. Design, develop, and maintain distributed, highly available, scalable database technologies; engage with customers and cross-functional teams; mentor, code review, and drive operational excellence in a startup-like environment within AWS Transactional Services.

Responsibilities

  • Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
  • Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
  • Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
  • Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.
  • As a day-to-day: create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, resolve root causes of software defects.
  • Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
  • Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
  • Work in a startup-like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Skills

Required:Software design and architectureProgramming languages
Nice to have:Distributed systems & databasesSoftware engineering best practices

Benefits

  • base salary with sign-on payments and RSUs
  • comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and more
  • 401(k) matching
  • paid time off
  • parential leave
  • EAP, Mental Health Support
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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