Senior Cloud Database Engineer II
Core
Building highly available, scalable cloud database platforms on AWS to support business-critical and customer-facing applications.
Role type
Senior Cloud Database Engineer (Reliability & Operations)
Builds
Production cloud data platforms (Aurora, RDS, Redshift, etc.)
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Database Engineering
Required skills
AWS managed database services, SQL, Python/Bash scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), observability, incident response, database security
Preferred skills
Mentoring junior engineers, designing failover testing strategies, automating recovery processes
Technologies
AWS (Aurora MySQL, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, ElastiCache), Python, Bash, Terraform, CloudFormation
Responsibilities
Create monitoring queries and establish service-level baselines; Design solutions for availability and fault tolerance; Participate in on-call rotation for incident recovery; Plan and execute failover testing; Automate system recovery using IaC; Implement observability solutions; Contribute to post-mortems and reliability documentation.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
