Amazon
Software Development Engineer, AWS DMS
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years non-internship professional software development; 2+ years non-internship design or architecture; 1+ years software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ years developing large-scale applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 1+ years Object Oriented Design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate the AWS DMS control plane and fleet systems that provision, deploy, secure, monitor, and maintain database migration infrastructure worldwide.
What you'll do
- Design and ship control-plane features for replication-instance lifecycle management, task orchestration, host management, and APIs.
- Own deployment systems, patching, and safe fleet rollouts; improve security, compliance, monitoring, and incident recovery.
- Participate in code reviews, design and release discussions, and an on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience with design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 1+ years designing and developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl, AWS DMS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, PostgreSQL
AI focus
Use and improve AI-powered engineering tools for defect detection, code review, and incident resolution; the team also uses AI for autonomous bug-fixing and an on-call agent.
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