Senior Database Engineer, RDS/Aurora MySQL
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