Sr Software Development Engineer, RDS Alameda

Senior Engineer

Do you want to work on the platform that removes undifferentiated heavy lifting for AWS's fastest-growing managed services? Alameda Platform is the foundation that lets service teams focus on building their product — not on deployment infrastructure, region expansion, or operational toil. Alameda allows the teams to singularly focus on their business logic.

You are an integral part of the core platform engineering team, working closely with service teams across AWS to design abstractions and automation that let them ship faster. You will engage in the full product cycle: architecture design, building shared frameworks, scaling deployment orchestration, and solving customer problems based on feedback.

Our team operates ~15,000 deployment cells across all AWS regions, serving 234 applications. We're expanding into classified partitions, simplifying our vendor experience, and looking for a senior engineer to help define what the next generation of managed service infrastructure looks like.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design and delivery of platform capabilities
• Build frameworks and abstractions that eliminate repetitive work for vendor teams (deployment, monitoring, security, region expansion)
• Drive architecture decisions for infrastructure-as-code (CDK/CloudFormation), orchestration, and multi-region automation
• Reduce operational toil through self-healing systems and improved observability
• Mentor SDEs and raise the bar through design reviews and technical standards
• Operate what you build — oncall, root cause analysis, and mechanisms to prevent recurrence

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

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Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.