Amazon Senior Database Engineer Aurora Product Team 

United States, Washington 

461579626

Key job responsibilities
* You work closely with customers to design solutions to migrate their data from traditional DBMS to the Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database.
* You work closely with our customers to understand their challenges, solve issues during critical escalations, and teach best practices.
* You, acting as the “voice of the customer”, bring learnings to the engineering process to design new features and plan end-to-end test scenarios. By shaping the direction of the Aurora Database service, you make it easier to understand how our service is used by customers, including database developers and administrators.
* You will actively drive feature enhancements, permanently resolve the root causes of issues, and improve the performance of our managed database service.
* You will contribute to automation solutions to improve the operational efficiency of the entire database service.* You will interact with the open-source community via forums, conferences and feature or bug-fix code submissions.A day in the lifeDiverse Experiences
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• 8 years’ experience building and maintaining complex mission-critical production database systems such as Postgres, Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server.
• 5 years’ experience designing and maintaining PostgreSQL relational databases.
• Experience tuning and troubleshooting high volume database systems
• Experience in Oracle to Postgres database migrations.
• Awareness of customer workloads and use cases, including performance, availability and scalability.
• Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths).
• Coding skills in the procedural language for at least one database engine a must (PL/SQL, T-SQL etc.)
• Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl).
• Working knowledge of at least one application programming language (Java, C#, C/C++, Rust, Go).

• Experience migrating from traditional DBMS to distributed transactional database services.
• Experience developing and converting Oracle databases, schemas, and PL/SQL.
• Working knowledge of internals of distributed transactional database such as Yugabyte, CockroachDB, TiDB or Google Spanner.
• Experience developing extensions or patches for PostgreSQL project or ecosystem.
• Software development or consulting experience.