[Hiring] Database Engineer II @Amazon

Role Description

Own the design, implementation, operation, and support of large-scale databases that are crucial to the successful operation of Amazon’s global physical security platform.

• Support and administer databases for performance critical, highly available, massively concurrent, distributed systems on a Linux platform.
• Establish and maintain security and integrity controls.
• Formulate and monitor policies, procedures, and standards relating to data management.
• Establish and calculate optimum database parameters and specify users and user access levels.
• Migrate performance-critical, high availability systems between managed and unmanaged database services.
• Provide support for system upgrades and new system releases.
• Perform database monitoring using tooling, PL/SQL, and Shell scripting.
• Conduct security monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of system failures.
• Work with third-party vendors and software development teams to deliver highly available, low-latency services.
• Gather requirements, model, design, develop, test, implement, support, and tune high availability data.
• Participate in design reviews with software teams, and drive feedback on architecture, design, system integration, performance, and scalability issues as it pertains to databases.
• Assist in developing long-term department database technology strategies.
• Influence cross-company database engineering processes and standards.
• 100% Telecommuting Permitted.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Networking, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, plus three years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
• Or a Bachelor's degree in Networking, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field plus 5 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Requirements

• Three years of experience in the following:
• Performing Linux and/or Windows Systems administration.
• Performing Network administration such as:
• DNS
• DHCP
• TCP/IP
• Load Balancing
• HTTP
• NAT
• BGP
• Software-based (IPSEC & SSL) VPN solutions.
• Working with one of the following database administration technologies:
• MySQL
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• MS-SQL
• Working with one of the following NoSQL technologies:
• DynamoDB
• Redis
• MongoDB
• Cassandra
• Working with ETL tools in managing data workflow jobs.
• Performing Hadoop system administration with experience with one of the following:
• Hive
• Spark
• HDFS
• Presto
• Yarn
• Sqoop
• Python
• Shell scripting.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans).
• EAP and Mental Health Support.
• Medical Advice Line.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off.
• Parental leave.