Senior Database Engineer — Automation & Architecture

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 156,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

AMAZON DEV CENTER U.S., INC. in Seattle is seeking a Database Engineer III to design and develop scalable database automation solutions and guide engineers on internal database topics. You will perform on-call duties, respond to incidents, and help drive database best practices across teams.

The role emphasizes architecture ownership, system-wide thinking, and mentoring of engineers to resolve complex problems while balancing short-term needs with long-term business goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with five years of progressive experience in the role.
• Experience in designing and developing robust and scalable database automation solutions.
• Experience advising engineers on database internals and building automation around benchmarking.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop robust, scalable database automation solutions.
• Advise software engineers on database internals.
• Execute and automate database benchmarking.
• Perform on-call duties including incident response, troubleshooting, and customer support.
• Present database best practices at conferences and workshops.
• Own database architecture and drive best practices across the team.
• Mentor other engineers and resolve complex architectural issues.

Skills

Database automation

Database benchmarking

PL/SQL

Java

On-call incident response

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

AMAZON DEV CENTER U.S., INC. in Seattle is seeking a Database Engineer III to design and develop scalable database automation solutions and guide engineers on internal database topics. You will perform on-call duties, respond to incidents, and help drive database best practices across teams.

The role emphasizes architecture ownership, system-wide thinking, and mentoring of engineers to resolve complex problems while balancing short-term needs with long-term business goals.