Software Development Engineer, AWS Transactional Services
Amazon • Vancouver, BC • Posted June 27, 2026
About the Role
Description
The Transactional Services team builds some of the most foundational distributed systems that underpin and power many large AWS services. We build and own a high performance, highly available replicated log service used by a range of AWS services as a commit log and for streaming data.
We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to own and a build major part for our control plane. Your work will be critical to the scalability and availability of the service. Working on a foundational service, your work can have a large, positive impact for AWS customers.
Job responsibilities include:
* Designing, developing, and operating highly available and scalable control plane services that manage the lifecycle, placement, and metadata of one of AWS's largest distributed systems — handling hundreds of millions of operations per second.
* Improving service quality, operational excellence, and reliability — building monitoring, automation, and operati...
The Transactional Services team builds some of the most foundational distributed systems that underpin and power many large AWS services. We build and own a high performance, highly available replicated log service used by a range of AWS services as a commit log and for streaming data.
We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to own and a build major part for our control plane. Your work will be critical to the scalability and availability of the service. Working on a foundational service, your work can have a large, positive impact for AWS customers.
Job responsibilities include:
* Designing, developing, and operating highly available and scalable control plane services that manage the lifecycle, placement, and metadata of one of AWS's largest distributed systems — handling hundreds of millions of operations per second.
* Improving service quality, operational excellence, and reliability — building monitoring, automation, and operati...