Senior Oracle DB Engineer - RDS Lead

Amazon Inc.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited is seeking a Database Engineer III for the RDS for Oracle team to lead architectural efforts and drive cross‑team initiatives. The role focuses on Oracle database internals, storage, replication, and performance optimisation within AWS RDS.

You will mentor junior DBEs and SDEs, design end‑to‑end tests, and automate operations at scale. The position offers a high‑impact, customer‑obsessed workload with broad AWS integration.

Qualifications

• Designing, architecting, and leading development of robust and scalable database automation solutions.
• Mentoring software engineers and database engineers on internals and best practices.
• Leading automation around database benchmarking and performance validation.

Responsibilities

• Own Oracle on RDS architecture, driving best practices and standards.
• Lead design and implementation of features that scale to millions of instances.
• Perform on-call duties including incident response and root cause analysis.

Skills

Database automation

Mentoring engineers

Automation frameworks

PL/SQL

Java

Technical strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

PL/SQL

Java

Job description

Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited is seeking a Database Engineer III for the RDS for Oracle team to lead architectural efforts and drive cross‑team initiatives. The role focuses on Oracle database internals, storage, replication, and performance optimisation within AWS RDS.

You will mentor junior DBEs and SDEs, design end‑to‑end tests, and automate operations at scale. The position offers a high‑impact, customer‑obsessed workload with broad AWS integration.