MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Employer: Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Offered Position: Database Engineer II - AMZ000560
Job Location: Seattle, WA
Position Responsibilities: 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, and 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 un
managed database services. Provide support for system upgrades and new system releases, and
perform database monitoring using tooling, PL/SQL, and Shell scripting, 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, and influence cross-company database
engineering processes and standards. 100% Telecommuting Permitted.
