Database Engineer, AWS DMS

Amazon • Boston, MA

3d • $124,700 - $168,800 • Onsite

About The Position

As a DMS Database Engineer, you are the front line for customer success. You are a builder and partner with the software engineers in building features to simplify the migration journey for customers. You partner with field engineers in learning customer pain points and diagnosing complex replication and migration failures, and guide customers through production incidents involving CDC, schema migration, and data validation across heterogeneous database engines. You work at the intersection of deep database internals knowledge and customer-facing problem solving - turning ambiguous production failures into root causes and fixes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience with database administration
• 4+ years of relational database technology (such as Redshift, Oracle, MySQL or MS SQL) experience
• Experience with at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl) and a procedural language for at least one database (PL/SQL, T-SQL etc.)
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience in any Bigdata architecture, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities and experience in Linux/RHEL

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
• Experience with general troubleshooting/debugging of hardware, or experience debugging, profiling, and implementing best software engineering practices in large-scale systems
• Experience with automation and any version control tools, or experience with threat modeling and penetration testing and experience in SQL Server/MySQL
• Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Leverage deep expertise in database internals (storage engines, transaction logs, replication mechanisms, query optimization) across PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, or DB2 to diagnose and resolve complex production issues.
• Investigate and resolve customer-facing database problems including performance degradation, data corruption, replication lag, CDC failures, and schema migration edge cases.
• Build automation, log analysis tools, and diagnostic scripts using SQL and scripting languages (Python, Bash, Perl) to accelerate troubleshooting and reduce manual investigation effort.
• Apply knowledge of database replication technologies - CDC (Change Data Capture), logical replication, log-based capture, and data validation - to guide customers through migration and replication challenges.
• Collaborate with SDEs on root cause analysis by reading and reasoning about C/C++ or Java code in the DMS replication engine to trace failures from customer symptoms to code-level defects.
• Operate within the AWS ecosystem (RDS, Aurora, DMS, Redshift, S3, CloudWatch) to investigate issues end-to-end across infrastructure, networking, and database layers.
• Document complex technical findings clearly — writing root cause analyses, runbooks, and knowledge base articles that enable support teams, engineering peers, and customers to resolve issues independently.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior