Senior Database Engineer, RDS/Aurora MySQL

Amazon; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 167,800 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Database Engineer for its development center in Palo Alto, California. The role involves working closely with customers to resolve database challenges and enhance product features for the Aurora Database service. Applicants should have over 5 years of experience in relational database technology and troubleshooting.

This position offers a competitive salary range of $167,800 - $227,000 annually, along with sign-on payments, RSUs, and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relational database technology experience.
• 5+ years of experience troubleshooting at all levels.
• 3+ years in operations of highly available internet systems.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers to resolve database challenges.
• Drive feature enhancements and resolve root causes.
• Interact with the open-source community.

Skills

Relational database technology experience

Troubleshooting skills

AWS service knowledge (EC2, RDS)

Modern programming languages (Ruby, Java, Python, C#)

Consulting experience

Job description

Senior Database Engineer, RDS/Aurora MySQL

Stellen-ID: 10439947 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations – from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Do you want to work on Aurora MySQL and Limitless Database? Do you like helping customers migrate, scale, and shard high‑volume transactional databases? You will be working on challenging technical areas such as distributed transaction, data migration, and sharding strategies. Our Database Engineering team works with strategic customers to help scale and optimize database workloads and design, build, and improve the Aurora managed database service. This is not a typical DBA or DBE role where you manage databases for specific customers. Instead, you are an integral part of the core database service team as you will work closely with developers and product and program managers. You will engage and contribute in the full product cycle: customer need analysis, feature brainstorming, design, implementation, validation and customer adoption.

Key Job Responsibilities

• You work closely with our customers to understand their challenges, solve issues during critical escalations, and teach best practices.
• As the “voice of the customer”, you 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 actively drive feature enhancements, permanently resolve the root causes of issues, and improve the performance of our managed database service.
• You 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 interact with the open‑source community via forums, conferences and feature or bug‑fix code submissions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relational database technology experience (Redshift, Oracle, MySQL, or MS SQL).
• 5+ years of experience troubleshooting skills at all levels, from application to network to host.
• 3+ years of experience in operations of highly available and scalable internet systems with a large customer base.
• 3+ years of knowledge of primary AWS services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, VPC, Route53, and S3.
• 3+ years of experience with a modern programming language (Ruby, Java, Python, or C#).
• 3+ years of consulting experience with multiple applications and workloads.
• Knowledge of system architecture, optimization, system dynamics, system analysis, statistical analysis, reliability analysis, and decision making.

Amazon is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include working safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhering to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicating effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and following all federal, state, and local laws and company policies.

The base salary range for this position is 167,800.00 – 227,000.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

USA, CA, East Palo Alto