Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect - MySQL, Data & AI GTM

About the role

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain expertise who can address advanced technical concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO), SSAs work with customers to solve complex challenges that require expert knowledge. They design scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures to address those challenges.

We are looking for a MySQL expert to be our next SSA specializing in Aurora MySQL to help customers architect, migrate, optimize, and operate MySQL workloads on Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customer engineers and technology leaders to design well-architected production systems for demanding workloads
• Represent the voice of the customer, sharing feedback with the Aurora service team to influence feature development and the product roadmap
• Provide advanced technical expertise to domain-aligned GTM teams, helping them address customers' most complex and critical business challenges
• Share best practices through blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures, and speaking engagements at AWS Summits, AWS re:Invent, and other events
• Help build and support an internal AWS community of technical subject matter experts around the world

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• Experience with any programming language such as Python, Java, C++
• 5+ years of experience in a technology domain such as software development, cloud, systems engineering, infrastructure, or data and analytics
• Hands-on experience with Aurora MySQL or RDS for MySQL
• Experience leading migrations to Aurora as the technical owner
• Experience with Aurora features such as its distributed storage architecture, fast database cloning, Global Database, CloudWatch Database Insights, and Blue/Green Deployments
• Experience architecting or operating MySQL at scale, including multi-terabyte databases, high connection counts, and cross-Region replication

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years designing, operating, or engineering production MySQL systems at scale
• Deep knowledge of MySQL and InnoDB internals, including transactions and locking, MVCC, undo logs and purge behavior, the query optimizer, indexing, and buffer pool management
• Experience with MySQL replication, including binary logs, GTIDs, asynchronous or semi-synchronous replication, replication lag, and failover
• Experience with partitioning, connection management, major-version upgrades, and MySQL plugins and storage engines
• Experience planning and executing database migrations, including schema conversion, data movement, cutover, rollback planning, and performance validation

Pay

• USA, CA, Mountain View: $176,600.00 - $239,000.00 USD annually
• USA, NJ, Jersey City: $169,000.00 - $228,600.00 USD annually
• USA, NY, New York: $169,000.00 - $228,600.00 USD annually
• USA, TX, Dallas: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, VA, Arlington: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, VA, Herndon: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Seattle: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, with option for Supplemental life plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Mental Health Support, and Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

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