MySQL Database Engineer II, RDS/Aurora MySQL Database Engineering Team

- 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)

- Consulting experience working with multiple customers is a plus
- Experience with multiple different relational databases

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***Open to multiple locations: Bangalore, Berlin, Dublin, London, Pune, Redmond, Seattle, SJC, Toronto, Vancouver***

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

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.

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.

Build the next generation of Aurora & RDS services -- NOT a DBA role






Key job responsibilities
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.