Sr Database Engineer III, RDS for Oracle
About The Position
The Relational Database Service (RDS) is one of the fastest growing AWS businesses, providing and managing relational databases as a service. RDS Custom for Oracle Team is seeking talented database engineers who will innovate and engineer solutions in the area of database technology. 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. We are looking for individuals who are enthusiastic about applying innovative ideas to solving real-world customer problems and who are passionate about working with customers. In this role you will act as the “Voice of the Customer” helping software engineers understand how customers use databases. you will be responsible for translating customers' needs and use cases into technical innovation and robust engineering solutions on AWS.
Requirements
- 7+ years of relational database technology (such as Redshift, Oracle, MySQL or MS SQL) experience
- 5+ years of relational database technology (such as Redshift, Oracle, MySQL or MS SQL) experience
- 5+ Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters, and troubleshooting.
- 3+ years Experience working directly with customers, resolving database, systems, and infrastructure-related issues, and providing systems architecture leadership.
- 2+ Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl) and a procedural language for at least one database (PL/SQL, T-SQL etc.).
Nice To Haves
- Experience with relational databases including Oracle, SqlServer, Postgres or MySQL
- Experience analyzing issues holistically, from the application tier through the database, down to the storage.
- Broad awareness of customer workloads and use cases, including performance, availability, and scalability.
- Experience building and maintaining complex mission-critical production database systems.
- Familiarity with at least one compiled language (Java, C, C++), experience automating tasks.
- Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (EC2, EBS, S3, etc.).
Responsibilities
- Deep knowledge and experience designing and maintaining Oracle relational databases.
- Experience working directly with customers, resolving database, systems, and infrastructure-related issues, and providing systems architecture leadership.
- Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths).
- Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl) and a procedural language for at least one database (PL/SQL, T-SQL etc.).
- Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters, and troubleshooting.
- Collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base.
- Solve challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, at every layer of the stack.
- Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
- Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
- Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.
- Design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture.
- Create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects.
- Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
- Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
- Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
- Work in a startup-like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff.
Benefits
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
