Database Engineer - Migrations & CDC Expert

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Boston (MA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a DMS Database Engineer to diagnose and fix complex replication and migration failures across heterogeneous databases. You will partner with software and field engineers to analyze customer incidents involving CDC, schema migrations, and data validation.

The role emphasizes production support and automation within the AWS data services stack. You will work across PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and DB2, building tools to accelerate troubleshooting and

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relational database technology experience
• Experience with at least one scripting language and a procedural language for at least one database

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across multiple database engines
• Investigate and resolve performance degradation, data corruption, replication lag, CDC failures, and schema migration edge cases
• Build automation, log analysis tools, and diagnostic scripts using SQL and scripting languages to accelerate troubleshooting
• Guide customers through migration and replication challenges using CDC, logical replication, and data validation
• Collaborate with SDEs on root cause analysis by reasoning about C/C++ or Java code in the DMS replication engine
• Operate within the AWS ecosystem (RDS, Aurora, DMS, Redshift, S3, CloudWatch) to investigate issues end-to-end
• Document findings with runbooks and knowledge base articles for teams and customers

Skills

PostgreSQL

Oracle

SQL Server

MySQL

DB2

Python

Bash

Perl

C/C++

Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

SQL

Python

Bash

Perl

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a DMS Database Engineer to diagnose and fix complex replication and migration failures across heterogeneous databases. You will partner with software and field engineers to analyze customer incidents involving CDC, schema migrations, and data validation.

The role emphasizes production support and automation within the AWS data services stack. You will work across PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and DB2, building tools to accelerate troubleshooting and