Sr. MySQL Database Engineer, RDS/Aurora MySQL Database Engineering Team

Job ID: 2938022 | Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited - D94

Open to multiple locations: Bangalore, Berlin, Dublin, London, Pune, Redmond, Seattle

Do you like to innovate? Relational Database Service (RDS) is one of the fastest growing AWS businesses, providing and managing relational databases as a service. RDS is seeking talented database engineers who will innovate and engineer solutions in the area of database technology.

We need individuals who are enthusiastic about applying bold new ideas to solving real-world customer problems and who are passionate about working with customers. Candidates must be able to translate customers' needs and use cases into technical innovation and robust engineering solutions on AWS.

The Database Engineering team is actively engaged in the ongoing database engineering process, partnering with development groups and providing deep subject matter expertise to feature design, and as an advocate for bringing forward and resolving customer issues. In this role you act as the "Voice of the Customer" helping software engineers understand how customers use databases.

Build the next generation of Aurora & RDS services

Note: NOT a Database Administrator or Data Engineering role

1. Collaborate with the software delivery team on detailed design reviews for new feature development.
2. Work with customers to identify root cause for ambiguous, complex database issues where the engine is not working as desired.
3. Work across teams to improve operational toolsets and internal mechanisms.
4. Author detailed designs for new features and/or future feature updates.
5. Mentor more junior engineers in their ongoing growth and development.
6. Participate in on-call rotation every ~5-6 weeks.

We are database experts actively engaged in the entire engineering process, partnering with development groups and providing subject matter expertise to the team in order to aid with feature design and as a customer advocate, bringing forward and resolving customer issues.

Utility Computing (UC)

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS's services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you'll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

1. Several years' experience designing and running MySQL relational databases in a large-scale, enterprise environment.
2. Several years' experience engineering, administering and managing multiple relational database engines (e.g., Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer, PostgreSQL).
3. Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths).
4. Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters and troubleshooting.
5. Coding skills in the procedural language for at least one database engine (PL/SQL, T-SQL, etc.) and at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl).

1. Consulting experience working with multiple customers.
2. Ability to communicate complex technical issues in writing.

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