Sr. MySQL Specialist Solutions Architect, Amazon Aurora
Core
Design scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures for MySQL workloads on Amazon Aurora and RDS, assisting customers with migrations, optimization, and operations.
Role type
Senior IC Solutions Architect (Database/Cloud)
Builds
Production-grade MySQL systems on AWS Aurora/RDS for demanding customer workloads
Domain
Cloud infrastructure + Relational Database Management Systems (MySQL)
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure
Required skills
Aurora MySQL, RDS for MySQL, database migrations, distributed storage architecture, database cloning, Global Database, CloudWatch Database Insights, Blue/Green Deployments, multi-terabyte database management, high connection counts, cross-Region replication, Python, Java, C++
Preferred skills
MySQL and InnoDB internals (transactions, locking, MVCC, undo logs, query optimizer, indexing, buffer pool), MySQL replication (binary logs, GTIDs, failover), partitioning, major-version upgrades, MySQL plugins, schema conversion, data movement, performance validation
Technologies
Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, MySQL, InnoDB, Python, Java, C++, CloudWatch
Responsibilities
Architect and operate MySQL at scale, lead migrations as technical owner, share best practices via blogs and speaking engagements, influence product roadmap with customer feedback, support internal AWS community of experts
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC