Software Development Engineer, RDS Platform

Responsibilities

RDS Platform scheduling team owns the patching scheduling domain for all RDS and Aurora engines, including the end‑to‑end patching and maintenance platform for Amazon RDS. The team builds and operates systems that automatically schedule, orchestrate, and safely deploy database engine upgrades, OS patches, and version deprecations across millions of customer resources worldwide.

As a software engineer you will work on high‑impact, customer‑facing challenges at massive scale. Key initiatives include: AI‑powered scheduling that replaces heuristics with intelligent, usage‑pattern‑based recommendations; near‑zero downtime OS upgrades;
GenAI‑driven policy setup; and Amazon Q integration for upgrade management. Your work will directly improve the security posture and operational experience for hundreds of thousands of AWS customers.

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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