Database Engineer IIIEmployer: 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.