Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is one of the fastest-growing Amazon businesses, making it easy for the customers to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups. We are allowing our customers to spend their valuable time focused on building their businesses, while providing them the fast performance, high availability, security and compatibility that they need.

The RDS Platform team is looking for a Software Development Engineer to lead the RDS Security to innovate new cloud infrastructure for internal customers on a massive distributed system architecture that supports one of the largest managed database fleets on the planet.

This space is on an accelerated trajectory of high-growth and will offer you regular interactions with leadership and clear opportunities for career advancement. As a Software Engineer on the RDS Platform team with a focus on security, you'll play a critical role in designing and implementing security features to safeguard our customers' data on the fly and at rest. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that our platform meets the highest standards of security and compliance. This role offers an exciting opportunity to tackle complex distributed systems in a fast-paced environment and make a meaningful impact on the future of cloud security.

Key job responsibilities
Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. You’ll bring a passion for innovation, data, search, analytics, and distributed systems. You’ll also:
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.

A day in the life
As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you’ll create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects. You’ll also:
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.

About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.