Senior Applied Scientist, Distributed SQL

Amazon
📍 Seattle, WA, United States 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted March 02, 2026

Job Description

Description
Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. Aurora DSQL provides active-active high availability, providing strong data consistency designed for 99.99% single-Region and 99.999% multi-Region availability. Aurora DSQL automatically manages and scales system resources, so you don't have to worry about maintenance downtime and provisioning, patching, or upgrading infrastructure.

As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will be expected to lead research and development in advanced query optimization techniques for distributed sql services. You will innovate in the query planning and execution layer to help Aurora DSQL succeed at delivering high performance for complex OLTP workloads. You will develop novel approaches to stats collection, query planning, execution and optimization. You will drive industry leading research, publish your research and help convert your r...

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Job Details

  • Location Seattle, WA
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category other-general
  • Posted Date March 02, 2026
  • Application Deadline March 07, 2026