Amazon

DESCRIPTION

Description

Do you want to work in Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL. Our team’s (the Database Engineering Team for RDS and Aurora MySQL) mission is to build, improve and manage MySQL as a fully 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 engineering team as you will work closely with developers and product and program managers. You will engage and contribute in the full product cycle: feature brainstorming, design, implementation, validation and customer escalation.

Job locations

This is a full time in-office role. The possible locations are Seattle, San Jose, Vancouver Canada, Toronto Canada, Austin, Boston, Dublin Ireland.

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 RDS service, 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 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 account team and customers directly.
• You will interact with the open-source community via forums, conferences and feature or bug-fix code submissions.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Redmond, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 8 years’ experience building and maintaining complex mission-critical production database systems such as Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server.
• 5 years’ experience designing and maintaining MySQL relational databases.
• 5 years’ experience working directly with customers, resolving database, systems and infrastructure-related issues and also providing systems architecture leadership.
• Awareness of customer workloads and use cases, including performance, availability and scalability.
• Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths).
• Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl).
• Working knowledge of at least one application programming language (Java, C#, C, C++, Go).
• Coding skills in the procedural language for at least one database engine a must (PL/SQL, T-SQL etc.)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience migrating databases from commercial engines to MySQL
• Experience migrating application code from commercial database engines to MySQL .
• Storage engineering experience, including NAS, SAN, SSD, multi-pathing and caching.
• Software development or consulting experience.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $227,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.