Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon Aurora DSQL at Amazon
Seattle, WA
$143,700–$194,400from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software development engineer role on the billing, observability, and metering (BOM) team for Aurora DSQL, Amazon's serverless distributed SQL database. Day-to-day work spans building metering infrastructure for transaction billing, distributed tracing and monitoring systems, benchmarking automation, and machine-learning-based capacity forecasting. The role suits engineers with distributed systems experience, primarily working in Rust with AWS CDK for cloud infrastructure.
Mid level · 3+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 7,500 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 5,600–9,700
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The Basic Qualifications gate on 1+ years of experience in C#, C++, Java, or Perl — these are listed as interchangeable alternatives; C# is used as the primary name with the others in alternatives.
Object-oriented design is listed as a hard gate in Basic Qualifications but names no specific technology; it is retained here as a named methodology requirement explicitly called out as a minimum qualification.
'Distributed systems' experience is implicitly required throughout the Basic Qualifications (designing large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications) but names no single tool — retained as a must-have capability gate.
Rust is listed only under Preferred Qualifications, despite being the team's primary language per the narrative; it is marked preferred accordingly.
CDK and AWS appear only in the team narrative ('uses CDK to define cloud infrastructure', 'across AWS regions') — not in any requirements section — so both are marked preferred.
The degree requirement is a Bachelor's in CS, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field; the JD does not offer an 'equivalent experience' substitution, so the degree requirement is set to Bachelors.
The overall years minimum is set to 3, matching the top-level gate of '3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.' The role's actual scope (metering, observability, benchmarking, ML-based forecasting on a new distributed SQL product) and the 3-year minimum gate together support a Mid-level classification, despite the technically sophisticated context.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): object-oriented design.
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