Software Development Engineer

Who you are

• Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

What the job involves

• Database Migration for Amazon RDS is fully managed, serverless capability that enables customers to migrate SQL Server/Oracle workloads - whether running on Amazon RDS, Amazon EC2, on-premises infrastructure, or other cloud providers - to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
• Customers simply provide source and target connection details, and the service orchestrates the entire migration lifecycle end-to-end: pre-migration assessment, schema conversion, data movement
• In addition to a traditional console-driven experience, the service introduces an agentic migration workflow
• Customers can initiate and manage migrations through natural language within the developer tools they already use - such as Kiro, Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex
• Amazon RDS is a part of AWS Utility Computing (UC) which provides product innovations - from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry
• As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services
• Design and implement scalable, serverless microservices that power the migration lifecycle - assessment, schema conversion, data movement
• Build agentic workflows that integrate with developer tools (Kiro, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) and enable natural language-driven database migrations
• Own operational excellence for your components: define SLAs, build dashboards, create runbooks, and drive root-cause analysis during incidents
• Contribute to system architecture decisions, write design documents, and participate in code reviews that raise the quality bar for the team
• Collaborate cross-functionally with solution architects, product managers, and partner teams (RDS, Aurora, AI/ML) to deliver customer-facing features
• Mentor SDE Is through code reviews, design guidance, and pair programming
• Participate in on-call rotations and operational excellence initiatives
• You might start the day with participating in a design review for a new feature: parallel data movement for multi-terabyte databases. You whiteboard trade-offs between consistency guarantees and throughput, debating how to minimize downtime during cutover windows
• Later, you pair with a teammate to debug a race condition in the serverless orchestration layer that surfaces only under high concurrency
• You'll join a team of curious, driven engineers who believe that technical excellence and world-class reliability are not aspirations - they are the baseline our customers deserve. If you want to build something that matters, alongside people who challenge and inspire you, this is the place
• This is a rare opportunity to design and operate systems at true cloud scale while developing deep expertise across three of the most transformative domains in modern engineering: cloud computing, database technologies, and artificial intelligence