Database Engineer III - AMZ9442634

Database Engineer Iii

Employer: Amazon.com Services Llc

Offered Position: Database Engineer Iii

Job Location: Seattle, Washington

Position Responsibilities:

• Own the design, implementation, operation, and support of large-scale databases that are crucial to the successful operation of our global e-commerce platform.
• Support and administer multiple MySQL & PostgreSQL databases for performance-critical, highly available, massively concurrent, distributed systems on a Unix/Linux platform, including participating in operational support.
• Support various layers of databases, including operating systems, hardware, storage, and network configurations.
• Troubleshoot complex technical problems, and assess and mitigate risks by conducting performance tuning, backup/recovery, and scalability/capacity planning using Linux, system calls, memory management, and debugging.
• Establish and maintain security and integrity controls, and formulate and monitor policies, procedures relating to data management.
• Establish and calculate optimum database parameters, and specify users and user access levels.
• Migrate software systems to MySQL & PostgreSQL from other software platforms and deploy MySQL & PostgreSQL software in performance-critical, high availability environments.
• Provide support for system upgrades and new system releases, and perform database monitoring using SQL, PL/SQL, and Unix shell scripting, Python, Perl, security monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of system failures.
• Work with the software development team to deliver highly available, low latency services.
• Gather requirements, model, design, develop, test, implement, support, and tune high availability data.
• Participate in design reviews with software teams, and drive feedback on architecture, design, system integration, performance, and scalability issues as it pertains to developing long-term department database technology strategies, and influence cross-company database engineering processes and standards.

Position Requirements:

• Masters degree or foreign equivalent degree in computer science or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered, or as a database engineer or administrator, or a related occupation.
• Employer will accept a bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in computer science or a related field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the master's degree and one year of experience.
• Must have one year of experience in the following skills: (1) designing, architecting, implementing, and optimizing database solutions while providing technical guidance on database technologies and best practices across multiple teams; (2) writing and reviewing database code, stored procedures, and data models while establishing standardized design patterns that can be adopted across teams; (3) administering and supporting multiple MySQL and PostgreSQL databases for performance-critical, highly available systems on Unix or Linux platforms; (4) performing data modeling, conducting performance tuning, managing backup and recovery processes, and handling scalability and capacity planning; and (5) utilizing SQL, Unix shell scripting, Python, Perl, or related technologies.

Amazon.com is an equal opportunity-affirmative action employer minority/female/disability/veteran/gender identity/sexual orientation.

40 hours/week, 8:00am-5:00pm, salary range $150,197/year to $197,400/year.

Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.