Job Title: Database Engineer
Relational Database Service (RDS) is one of the fastest growing AWS businesses, providing and managing relational databases as a service.
We are seeking talented database engineers who will innovate and engineer solutions in the area of database technology.
About the Role:
As a Database Engineer at Amazon, you will be part of a team actively engaged in the ongoing database engineering process, partnering with development groups and providing deep subject matter expertise to feature design.
You will act as the Voice of the Customer, helping software engineers understand how customers use databases.
Key Responsibilities:
* Designing and running MySQL relational databases.
* Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (EC2, EBS, S3, etc.).
* Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths).
* Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters and troubleshooting.
* Storage engineering experience, including logical and physical volume management and replication.
* Experience building and maintaining complex mission-critical production database systems.
* Experience analyzing issues holistically, from the application tier through the database, down to the infrastructure.
* Broad awareness of customer workloads and use cases, including performance, availability and scalability.
* Experience working directly with customers, resolving database, systems and infrastructure-related issues and also providing systems architecture leadership.
* Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl).
* Coding skills in the procedural language for at least one database engine a must (PL/SQL, T-SQL etc.).
* Excellent communication skills.
* 5 years of experience engineering, administering and managing multiple relational database flavors (e.g. Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer, PostgreSQL).
Preferred Qualifications:
* Consulting experience working with multiple customers is a plus.
* Experience with multiple different relational databases.
About Amazon:
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.
We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.