MySQL Database Engineer, Amazon
RDS/Aurora MySQL Database Engineering Team
The largest online retailer and technology provider
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- Do you like to innovate? 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
- Deep knowledge and experience designing and running MySQL relational databases
- Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (EC2, EBS, S3, etc.)
- Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths)
- Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters and troubleshooting
- Storage engineering experience, including logical and physical volume management and replication
- Experience building and maintaining complex mission-critical production database systems
- Experience analyzing issues holistically, from the application tier through the database, down to the infrastructure
- Broad awareness of customer workloads and use cases, including performance, availability and scalability
- Experience working directly with customers, resolving database, systems and infrastructure-related issues and also providing systems architecture leadership
- Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl)
- Coding skills in the procedural language for at least one database engine a must (PL/SQL, T-SQL etc.)
- Excellent communication skills
- 5 years of experience engineering, administering and managing multiple relational database flavors (e.g. Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer, PostgreSQL)
Desirable
- Consulting experience working with multiple customers is a plus
- Experience with multiple different relational databases
What the job involves
- 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
- 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 an customer advocate, bringing forward and resolving customer issues
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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