Senior Database Engineer, Aurora and Open Source

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll 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.
* 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.

A day in the life
Work closely with software development engineers and managers to design new database features. Attend daily scrum meeting with SDEs contribute to design doc and provide experienced testing coverage scenarios. Engage with customers on critical service issues guide the customer on troubleshooting educate the customer on best practices and provide database level technical solutions. Write official documentation and blogs for both open source and Aurora.

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- 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

- 3 years experience of a modern programming language (Ruby Java Python or C#)
- 3 years of experience consulting working with multiple different applications and workloads

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: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. 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 (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA East Palo Alto - 167800.00 - 227000.00 USD annually
USA WA Redmond - 145900.00 - 197400.00 USD annually