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Software Development Engineer, Aurora Control Plane

📍 Location
East Palo Alto
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
June 20, 2026

About the Role

Description
Are you excited about building and operating distributed systems at massive scale? The Aurora Control Plane team is looking for a Software Development Engineer to help us build the backbone of Amazon Aurora — the fastest-growing service in AWS history.

Our team owns critical infrastructure that powers database migrations, replication, parameter management, and high availability for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS. We build the control plane systems that orchestrate the complete lifecycle of customer databases — enabling seamless migrations between RDS and Aurora, managing engine-based replication across regions and availability zones, ensuring customers' database parameters are applied correctly across all supported engines, and architecting the availability framework for Multi-AZ DB Cluster deployments. Our services support millions of active databases across all AWS regions.

You will design and implement features that directly impact hundreds of thousand...

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