Software Development Engineer, AWS DMS

Salary: $143,400 - 143,400 per year Requirements:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience outside internships
• 2+ years of experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling
• 1+ year of experience as a software development engineer or in a related occupation
• 1+ year of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multithreaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl
• 1+ year of object-oriented design experience
• Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming in at least one software language
• Preferred: 3+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Preferred: Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

• Design, implement, and release features and fixes across the DMS control plane, including replication-instance provisioning and lifecycle management, replication-task orchestration, host management, and customer- and internal-facing APIs
• Own deployment and release systems for a large global fleet, including deployment pipelines, operating-system patching, and safe rollout mechanisms
• Improve security and compliance to protect customer data
• Promote operational excellence by creating alarms, monitors, automated safeguards, and tools that reduce recovery time
• Contribute to code reviews, design discussions, and release management
• Participate in an on-call rotation, investigate production incidents, and drive them through resolution
• Design automation for provisioning, patching, and safely deploying changes across regions
• Investigate recurring operational issues, identify root causes, and implement durable fixes
• Use and help improve AI-powered engineering tools for defect detection, code review, and incident resolution

• AI
• AWS
• C#
• DMS
• Embedded
• IoT
• Support
• Java
• Perl
• Security
• Cloud
• DevOps
• EC2
• MySQL
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• SQL

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We build AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), which has migrated more than 1.5 million database workloads and helps customers move databases to Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS. Our customers around the world rely on DMS to migrate critical data from on-premises data centers to AWS, and depend on our services for reliability and security. As part of AWS Utility Computing, DMS contributes to services across compute, databases, storage, IoT, platforms, and productivity applications. Our DMS Platform team owns the control plane and the deployment, host-management, and operational systems behind a global fleet of replication instances. We support knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and career development, and use AI-powered tools across engineering and operations. The position is based in Seattle, Washington, with a listed base salary of $143,400 annually. Compensation may also include sign-on payments and restricted stock units, with final pay determined by factors such as experience, qualifications, and location. We offer benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. We are an equal opportunity employer and provide workplace accommodations during the application and hiring process.

last updated 41 week of 2026