DatabaseEngineerIII

MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC Offered Position: Database Engineer III Job Location: Seattle, Washington Job Number: AMZ9442634 Position Responsibilities: Own the design, implementation, operation, and support of large-scale databases that are crucial to the successful operation of our global E-commerce platform. Support and administer multiple MySQL & PostgreSQL databases for performance-critical, highly available, massively concurrent, distributed systems on a Unix/Linux platform, including participating in operational support. Support various layers of databases, including operating systems, hardware, storage, and network configurations. Troubleshoot complex technical problems, and assess and mitigate risks by conducting performance tuning, backup/recovery, and scalability/capacity planning using Linux, system calls, memory management, and debugging. Establish and maintain security and integrity controls, and formulate and monitor policies, procedures relating to data management. Establish and calculate optimum database parameters, and specify users and user access levels. Migrate software systems to MySQL & PostgreSQL from other software platforms and deploy MySQL & PostgreSQL software in performance-critical, high availability environments. Provide support for system upgrades and new system releases, and perform database monitoring using SQL, PL/SQL, and Unix shell scripting, Python, Perl, security monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of system failures. Work with the Software development team 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 developing long-term department database technology strategies, and influence cross-company database engineering