Senior Aurora MySQL Database Engineer (RDS) - Scale & Shard

Amazon; East Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon's AWS Database Engineering team in East Palo Alto, CA, is seeking a Database Engineer for Aurora MySQL to help scale and optimize the Aurora managed database service.

You will engage with customers, translate requirements into engineering work, design end-to-end test scenarios, and drive feature enhancements. You will also contribute to automation and interact with the open-source community.

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 service, 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

System architecture

Optimization

System dynamics

System analysis

Statistical analysis

Reliability analysis

Decision making

Troubleshooting

Consulting experience

Ruby

Java

Python

C#

Tools

Redshift

Oracle

MySQL

MS SQL

EC2

ELB

RDS

VPC

Route53

S3

Aurora

Job description

Amazon's AWS Database Engineering team in East Palo Alto, CA, is seeking a Database Engineer for Aurora MySQL to help scale and optimize the Aurora managed database service.

You will engage with customers, translate requirements into engineering work, design end-to-end test scenarios, and drive feature enhancements. You will also contribute to automation and interact with the open-source community.