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Senior Database Engineer, RDS/Aurora MySQL

East Palo Alto, California, United States💼 Full-time💰 $167,800–$227,000🗓 2026-06-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and improve the Aurora managed database service (MySQL) by solving distributed transaction, data migration, and sharding challenges for strategic customers.

Role type

Senior IC database engineer (cloud platform)

Builds

Aurora MySQL managed database service

Domain

Cloud computing / Distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

relational database technology, system architecture, system optimization, troubleshooting at all levels, operations of highly available scalable internet systems, AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, VPC, Route53, S3)

Preferred skills

modern programming languages (Ruby, Java, Python, C#), consulting experience with multiple applications and workloads

Technologies

Aurora, MySQL, Redshift, Oracle, MS SQL, Ruby, Java, Python, C#, EC2, ELB, RDS, VPC, Route53, S3

Responsibilities

Work with customers to understand challenges and solve critical escalations; act as the voice of the customer to shape the direction of the Aurora Database service; drive feature enhancements and resolve root causes of issues; contribute to automation solutions for operational efficiency; interact with the open-source community via forums and code submissions; write official documentation and blogs.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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