Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Technology

SoftwareDevelopmentEngineerII,RDSTelemetryPlatform

$70–194k Redmond, Washington, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Development Engineer II, RDS Telemetry Platform at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.. Skills: Database telemetry, AI techniques, Distributed systems. Develop product capturing telemetry. Store telemetry from databases”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Diagnose root causes; Troubleshoot database performance; Resolve ambiguity

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years software development experience, 2+ years programming experience, 1+ years systems architecture and design experience, Bachelor's degree or equivalent, Knowledge of software engineering best practices

Nice to Have

3+ years full SDLC experience, Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals knowledge, Experience debugging large-scale systems, Experience profiling large-scale systems, Experience implementing software engineering best practices in large-scale systems

What You'll Do.

Develop product capturing telemetry

Store telemetry from databases

Surface telemetry to customers

Explore innovative solutions

Build innovative solutions

Leverage telemetry for troubleshooting

Leverage telemetry for optimization

Detect security threats

Monitor database performance

Tune database performance

Provide relevant metrics

Provide recommendations

Solve engineering challenges

Take ownership of operational excellence

Learn customer challenges

Solve customer challenges

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams

Full Job Description

We are looking for a highly-skilled, experienced, and motivated software engineer to help us in our endeavour to make AWS the best place to operate relational databases. The RDS Telemetry Platform team builds and operates the infrastructure for collecting, ingesting, and routing database telemetry across the RDS fleet, including a Data Lake for fleet-wide analysis. The team also develops automated engines that detect performance anomalies, diagnose root causes, and deliver tuning recommendations using both traditional and generative-AI techniques. This is a rare chance for you to be a part of a highly visible team working at the intersection of database performance and AI, helping customers manage their growing fleet of Aurora and RDS databases. To learn more about Amazon RDS and Aurora, visit: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rds/ Key job responsibilities You will be responsible for developing a product that captures and stores telemetry from Aurora and RDS databases and surfaces them to our customers through multiple downstream products. You will also be responsible for exploring and building innovative solutions that leverage this telemetry to help customers troubleshoot and optimize database performance and detect security threats. This product operates on millions of instances, and helps our customers monitor and tune the performance and security of their databases through timely and relevant metrics, as well as recommendations. This is an area that requires solving the hardest engineering challenges in distributed systems at massive scale. As a customer-facing AWS service, our solutions have to be super solid, scalable, efficient, and highly fault tolerant. You will be responsible for all aspects of engineering, including development, testing and deployment of these services. AWS operates large-scale, mission critical workloads, so you need to be comfortable taking ownership of the operational excellence of your service. Finally, you're excited by the opportunity t

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