Sourcing Recruiter

Benefits and compensation

This onsite role in Seattle, WA offers a competitive package at Amazon.com Services LLC, with a salary range of USD 72,600 to 126,100 per year. The position emphasizes collaboration, impact, and long-term growth within a teams focused on database engineering excellence.

• Health insurance coverage including medical, dental, vision, and prescription drugs, Basic Life and AD and D insurance, plus options for supplemental life plans, EAP, mental health support, and a Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Sign-on payments
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)

Responsibilities

• Develop sourcing strategies from scratch for senior and principal level roles across database engines, distributed systems, query optimization, replication, and open source ecosystems
• Identify candidates others cannot reach through deep research, creative sourcing campaigns, target company mapping, and referral engineering
• Lead sourcing sessions with engineering teams to extract signal, generate referrals, and build conviction around candidate profiles
• Own pipeline health by maintaining accurate candidate records, tracking sourcing metrics, and conveying market insights to stakeholders with clarity
• Partner closely with hiring managers to deeply understand technical requirements and translate them into actionable search strategies
• Raise the bar for the team by contributing to sourcing best practices, training, and process improvements

Requirements

• 3+ years of technical recruiting experience in a high-volume, high-hiring-bar environment
• Experience building candidate sourcing and closing strategies
• Experience recruiting for mid-senior level talent

Technologies

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• Aurora