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Amazon Flex hiring Database Engineer III - AMZ9917997, Seattle, Washington

Database Engineer III - AMZ9917997

Amazon Flex

Seattle, Washington
Posted 1 weeks ago

Qualifications

Education

Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Responsibilities

Primary Duties

  • Design and develop specialized DBA tools and automation to enhance database performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
  • Create machine learning-based anomaly detection systems.
  • Develop monitoring frameworks using AMSR.
  • Enhance troubleshooting tools.
  • Build automation for cost and peak event management.
  • Lead the end-to-end launch and scaling of databases for new Fulfillment Centers (FCs) and External Fulfillment Platforms (EFP).
  • Drive the expansion of sequencing implementations across other service teams.
  • Optimize and monitor production database environments.
  • Implement recovery solutions using AWS cloud architectures.
  • Support efforts to reduce fleet costs.
  • Evaluate and integrate newly beta-tested technologies into Amazon's DB stack.
  • Tune database performance and plan for scaling and peak load requirements.
  • Migrate applications between Amazon's RDBMS and NoSQL technologies.
  • Participate in hiring, mentor junior engineers, conduct code and design reviews.

Experience Requirements

Required

one year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation

Required Skills

Technical Skills

RDS (PostgreSQL and MySQL)RedshiftUNIX shellSQLdatabase migrationsDynamoDBNoSQL DatabasesPythonRubyJavaPerl

Full Job Description

Database Engineer III

Employer: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC

Job Location: Seattle, Washington

Position Responsibilities:

  • Design and develop specialized DBA tools and automation to enhance database performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
  • This includes creating machine learning-based anomaly detection systems, developing monitoring frameworks using AMSR, enhancing troubleshooting tools, and building automation for cost and peak event management.
  • Lead the end-to-end launch and scaling of databases for new Fulfillment Centers (FCs) and External Fulfillment Platforms (EFP), ensuring proper sequencing and readiness for production.
  • Drive the expansion of sequencing implementations across other service teams.
  • Optimize and monitor production database environments, implement recovery solutions using AWS cloud architectures, and support efforts to reduce fleet costs.
  • Evaluate and integrate newly beta-tested technologies into Amazon's DB stack and work on tuning database performance and planning for scaling and peak load requirements.
  • Migrate applications between Amazon's RDBMS and NoSQL technologies where appropriate.
  • Participate in hiring, mentor junior engineers, conduct code and design reviews, and help ensure engineering best practices are upheld across the team.
  • Utilize technologies such as Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL/MySQL), RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Redshift, Apollo, and internal tools like Amazon Pipelines and Brazil Build System.

Position Requirements:

  • Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
  • Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, 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) experience with RDS (PostgreSQL and MySQL), Redshift, or other RDBMS systems; (2) experience in UNIX shell and SQL; (3) experience in database migrations and creation of objects in SQL and NoSQL technologies; (4) experience with DynamoDB, NoSQL Databases, or other relational databases; and (5) experience with Python, Ruby, Java, Perl, or a related procedural language.

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 $149,989/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.

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