Software Development Engineer, ElastiCache

Job Overview This is an opportunity to join one of AWS's most foundational and high-impact engineering teams — the Data Plane team within Amazon ElastiCache and MemoryDB. We own the core in-memory engine that powers millions of customer workloads: the data path, durability layer, replication protocol, snapshot system, and advanced data structures. Our work sits at the intersection of systems programming, database internals, and performance engineering — every microsecond matters when you're serving the world's most latency-sensitive applications.

If you've ever found yourself deep in a conversation about write-ahead logs, copy‑on‑write fork semantics, lock‑free data structures, or memory allocator design — and you want to apply those ideas to a system handling millions of operations per second at cloud scale — this team is where you belong.

We build the engine behind Amazon MemoryDB, the only Valkey‑compatible database that delivers in‑memory speed with Multi‑AZ durab...

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