Senior Database Engineer, RDS/Aurora MySQL

About the role

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 consistently released 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.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with our customers to understand their challenges, solve issues during critical escalations, and teach best practices.
• Act as the “voice of the customer” to bring learnings to the engineering process and shape the direction of the Aurora Database service.
• Drive feature enhancements, permanently resolve the root causes of issues, and improve the performance of our managed database service.
• Contribute to automation solutions to improve the operational efficiency of the entire database service.
• Interact with the open-source community via forums, conferences, and feature or bug-fix code submissions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of 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+ 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 the primary AWS services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, VPC, Route53, and S3.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with a modern programming language (Ruby, Java, Python, or C#).

Skills

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Benefits

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Pay

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

USA, CA, East Palo Alto - 167,800.00 - 227,000.00 USD annually

Schedule

Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.