Aurora & Open-Source DB Engineer

Amazon; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSU program

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon's AWS Development Center in the U.S. seeks a Senior Database Engineer for Aurora and Open Source to join the Database Engineering team.

You will work with developers and PMs to design, implement, and optimize the Aurora managed database service, focusing on high-volume, globally distributed workloads. Responsibilities include collaborating with customers, analyzing requirements, driving features, and contributing automation and documentation.

Qualifications

• 5+ Knowledge of concepts like system architecture, optimization, system dynamics, system analysis, statistical analysis, reliability analysis, and decision making.
• 5+ years of relational database technology (such as Redshift, Oracle, MySQL or MS SQL) experience.
• 5+ Experience troubleshooting skills at all levels, from application to network to host.
• 3+ Experience in operations of highly available and scalable internet systems with a large customer base.
• 3+ Knowledge of the primary AWS services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, VPC, Route53, and S3.

Responsibilities

• You work closely with our customers to understand their challenges, solve issues during critical escalations, and teach best practices.
• You, acting as the “voice of the customer”, bring learnings to the engineering process to design new features and plan end-to-end test scenarios. By shaping the direction of the Aurora Database services, you make it easier to understand how our service is used by customers, including database developers and administrators.
• You will actively drive feature enhancements, permanently resolve the root causes of issues, and improve the performance of our managed database service.
• You will contribute to automation solutions to improve the operational efficiency of the entire database service.
• You are viewed as the ultimate subject matter expertise for all things databases as your work will be highly sought by the development team, the support team, the field teams, and customers directly.
• You will interact with the open-source community via forums, conferences and feature or bug-fix code submissions.

Skills

Relational databases

Troubleshooting

AWS services

Programming languages

Open source

Job description

Amazon's AWS Development Center in the U.S. seeks a Senior Database Engineer for Aurora and Open Source to join the Database Engineering team.

You will work with developers and PMs to design, implement, and optimize the Aurora managed database service, focusing on high-volume, globally distributed workloads. Responsibilities include collaborating with customers, analyzing requirements, driving features, and contributing automation and documentation.