Software Development Engineer, RDS Platform
Location
Austin, TX
Job Type
Full-time
Category
other-general
Posted
June 03, 2026
Description
RDS Platform scheduling team owns the patching scheduling domain for all RDS and Aurora engines. This includes the end-to-end patching and maintenance platform for Amazon RDS — one of AWS's largest and most critical managed database services. Our team builds and operates the systems that automatically schedule, orchestrate, and safely deploy database engine upgrades, OS patches, and version deprecations across millions of customer resources worldwide. We own key services including Bluestone (the central scheduling engine), Anaha, RDS Event Service, AWS Health Updater service, and AWF patching schedulers, and we are responsible for the Henosis upgrade rollout policy framework that gives customers blast-radius control over their fleet upgrades.
As a software engineer on this team, you will join a team working on high-impact, customer-facing challenges at massive scale — our north star is to make patching completely seamless, achieving zero-apparent downtime for al...
RDS Platform scheduling team owns the patching scheduling domain for all RDS and Aurora engines. This includes the end-to-end patching and maintenance platform for Amazon RDS — one of AWS's largest and most critical managed database services. Our team builds and operates the systems that automatically schedule, orchestrate, and safely deploy database engine upgrades, OS patches, and version deprecations across millions of customer resources worldwide. We own key services including Bluestone (the central scheduling engine), Anaha, RDS Event Service, AWS Health Updater service, and AWF patching schedulers, and we are responsible for the Henosis upgrade rollout policy framework that gives customers blast-radius control over their fleet upgrades.
As a software engineer on this team, you will join a team working on high-impact, customer-facing challenges at massive scale — our north star is to make patching completely seamless, achieving zero-apparent downtime for al...