Does the idea of building a revolutionary new transactional database technology excite you? The Distributed SQL team at AWS is focused on providing Amazon customers with new database services that will transform how they design, operate, and scale core business applications that can adapt to the needs of nascent new business or scale to billions of operations for the largest global companies. If this challenge excites you, we would love to talk to you about joining our team.

You will play a critical role to help building a world-class developer experience by designing and implementing developer-friendly tools and systems. Your key responsibilities will involve developing database drivers, APIs, and SDKs that provide seamless and intuitive access to our database technology across various programming languages and frameworks. Your deep understanding of developers' challenges, pain points, and requirements will be invaluable in designing effective, robust, secure, and highly performant tools. You thrive in delivering high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift rapidly to meet our customers' evolving needs. The team you'll join focuses on empowering developers to build innovative applications without being hindered by the complexities of integrating with our cutting-edge database technology.


This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast-growing business and help shape the technology powering Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and everything in between. You will bring deep technical, algorithmic and coding expertise with the ability to work within a fast moving and collaborative environment in the industry leading cloud company to deliver a broad business impact. If this sounds exciting to you - come build the future with us!


About the team
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity)conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfilment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
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 based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.