[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All Amazon jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/) · [Search jobs](/search/) Amazon · IE, D, Dublin # Principal Software Engineer - RDS, RDS Platform IE, D, Dublin Senior individual contributor Software Engineering Listed on Amazon’s official careers site. Posted May 26, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on Amazon’s careers site →](https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10430929/principal-software-engineer-rds-rds-platform) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Amazon](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/) / Principal Software Engineer - RDS, RDS Platform ## Job description Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. Behind the scenes, a critical engineering challenge powers this service: delivering continuous software updates across one of the largest managed database fleets in the world, with minimal customer disruption. As a Principal Engineer on our Database Fleet Management team, you will own the technical vision and architecture for how we deliver software updates at massive scale. You will drive innovation in patching orchestration, intelligent scheduling, deployment pipelines, and fleet lifecycle management. ### Your goal increase delivery velocity while reducing customer impact to near zero. You will provide cross-cutting technical leadership across multiple engineering teams, influencing architecture decisions that span the full software delivery lifecycle from scheduling through execution to customer communication. ### Key job responsibilities Architect fleet update systems that deliver minimal-downtime software updates to millions of database instances across multiple engines, regions, and availability zones Drive cross-cutting technical strategy across scheduling, orchestration, deployment, and customer experience, ensuring architectural coherence across multiple teams Design and deliver highly scalable distributed systems with demanding availability, latency, and throughput requirements Innovate on approaches to reduce update latency and customer impact through intelligent scheduling, automated safety mechanisms, and progressive rollout strategies Raise the engineering bar across the organization through mentorship, operational excellence, design patterns, and architecture reviews Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate customer pain points into technical strategy, balancing long-term platform investments with near-term delivery Influence the broader AWS organization on fleet management, lifecycle automation, and software delivery best practices ### About the team You will work on systems that schedule, orchestrate, and execute millions of fleet maintenance operations, balancing service health requirements with customer preferences. The challenges include building intelligent scheduling at scale, orchestrating complex multi-step workflows across diverse database engines, deploying updates with minimal disruption, and communicating proactively with customers throughout the process. We are a globally distributed team with engineers across Europe and the US, solving problems that directly impact hundreds of thousands of AWS customers every day. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: May 26, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 18, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 18, 2026 - Listed for: 145 days - Location: IE, D, Dublin[Apply on Amazon’s careers site →](https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10430929/principal-software-engineer-rds-rds-platform) ## More jobs at Amazon ### [Senior Software Development Engineer, Aurora PostgreSQL](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/89c44ac7b2b75a6f958b/) IE, D, Dublin ### [Senior Software Engineering Manager, Amazon DynamoDB](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/5807db3854ce1ef48cd8/) IE, D, Dublin ### [Software Development Engineer, Network Monitoring and Remediation](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/175a6290fd7767ad093e/) IE, D, Dublin ### [Software Development Engineer - DMS, Database Migration Service](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/6dff57b29dc084601e2a/) IE, D, Dublin ### [Software Development Engineer 2 - DynamoDB, DynamoDB](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/76f1371fc212d07945c9/) IE, D, Dublin ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Small Gas Turbine RDS/CTS Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/siemens-energy/jobs/57164285e966fffa9f87/) Siemens Energy ### [Medium Gas Turbine RDS/CTS Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/siemens-energy/jobs/8cfc073649e4c3da8985/) Siemens Energy ### [Digital Platform Specialist - RDS](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/abb/jobs/42872ec5d50129befdb7/) ABB · Ostrava, Moravskoslezský kraj, Czechia ### [Principal Software Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/capgemini/jobs/68b70570e80731f1f389/) Capgemini · Utrecht ### [Principal Software Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/microsoft/jobs/3adc27485dc247795775/) Microsoft · India, Karnataka, Bangalore OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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