Amazon Performance Engineer Amazon Aurora 

United States, California, East Palo Alto 

820765630

***Open to: Palo Alto***
Key job responsibilities- Understand database internals, server and storage system design, application interactions with database queries and stored procedures- Work with software developers to implement performance regression automated testing
- Build and run automation and benchmark tests to improve quality, performance, and scalability
- Run database benchmark workloads
- Analyze new designs for performance and scaling
A day in the life
- Work with SDEs, SDMs on bottleneck analysis and identifying options to fix and scale performance issues
- Work with SDEs to develop automated performance regression test suites that will test new hardware, new database versions, new features

- Experience migrating legacy on-prem code to cloud native stacks
- Experience migrating application code from commercial database engines to open source engines
- Experience building application and database systems with PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Software performance analysis and bottleneck identification, scaling, automation experience
- Published papers, articles, blogs on performance at industry events, benchmark results or academic events