Sr Database Engineer III, RDS for Oracle

The Relational Database Service (RDS) is one of the fastest growing AWS businesses, providing and managing relational databases as a service. RDS Custom for Oracle Team is seeking talented database engineers who will innovate and engineer solutions in the area of database technology.

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.

We are looking for individuals who are enthusiastic about applying innovative ideas to solving real-world customer problems and who are passionate about working with customers. In this role you will act as the “Voice of the Customer” helping software engineers understand how customers use databases. you will be responsible for translating customers' needs and use cases into technical innovation and robust engineering solutions on AWS.



Key job responsibilities

- Deep knowledge and experience designing and maintaining Oracle relational databases.
- Experience working directly with customers, resolving database, systems, and infrastructure-related issues, and providing systems architecture leadership.
- Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths).
- Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl) and a procedural language for at least one database (PL/SQL, T-SQL etc.).
- Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters, and troubleshooting.
- Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. You’ll bring a passion for innovation, data, search, analytics, and distributed systems. You’ll also:
- Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
- Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
- Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
- Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.



A day in the life
As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you’ll create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects. You’ll also:
Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
Work in a startup-like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff.


About the team
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud."
- 7+ years of relational database technology (such as Redshift, Oracle, MySQL or MS SQL) experience
- 5+ years of relational database technology (such as Redshift, Oracle, MySQL or MS SQL) experience
- 5+ Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters, and troubleshooting.
- 3+ years Experience working directly with customers, resolving database, systems, and infrastructure-related issues, and providing systems architecture leadership.
- 2+ Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl) and a procedural language for at least one database (PL/SQL, T-SQL etc.). - Experience with relational databases including Oracle, SqlServer, Postgres or MySQL
- Experience analyzing issues holistically, from the application tier through the database, down to the storage.
- Broad awareness of customer workloads and use cases, including performance, availability, and scalability.
- Experience building and maintaining complex mission-critical production database systems.
- Familiarity with at least one compiled language (Java, C, C++), experience automating tasks.
- Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (EC2, EBS, S3, etc.).

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Redmond - 145,900.00 - 197,400.00 USD annually