Amazon
Software Development Engineer
$165K–$224K
East Palo Alto, CA · Full-time · Posted May 15, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ years designing and developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, and services; 1+ years of Object Oriented Design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Develop software for AWS relational database systems, addressing distributed systems, availability, durability, scaling, and performance challenges.
What you'll do
- Build and improve software for large-scale relational database deployments.
- Solve challenges involving distributed systems, concurrency, high availability, durability, and performance.
- Design systems and software applications, tools, and services.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems.
- Experience with large-scale software development using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; object-oriented design; and at least one programming language.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
Nice to have
- Experience designing stateful Apache Flink applications using CDC ingestion, checkpoint optimization, and exactly-once delivery into Apache Iceberg or similar lakehouse formats.
- Experience building REST APIs and deploying high-throughput, low-latency workloads on EKS/Kubernetes.
Pay
165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl, Apache Flink, Apache Iceberg, REST APIs, EKS/Kubernetes
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