Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited
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Sr.DatabaseEngineer,AWSDMS
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“Sr. Database Engineer, AWS DMS at Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited. Skills: Database migration, Replication, AWS DMS, Database internals. Own customer escalations. Resolve complex database migration issues”
What You'll Achieve.
Prevent issues from reaching customers; Reduce dependency on SMEs
Industry & Context.
Troubleshooting; Root cause analysis; Data corruption analysis; Data loss analysis; Crash pattern analysis; Replication divergence analysis
On-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Experience in Postgres, Experience in Oracle DB, Troubleshoot and debug technical systems, Experience with scripting language, Experience with procedural language, Experience as mentor, Experience as tech lead, Experience leading engineering team, Deep understanding of data replication, Hands-on CDC technologies experience, Ability to read C/C++ code, Ability to reason about C/C++ code, Ability to read Java code, Ability to reason about Java code
Nice to Have
Senior escalation point experience, Experience supporting large-scale migrations, Experience with memory debugging tools, Willingness to develop memory debugging, Experience influencing product development, Experience building automated test frameworks, Experience contributing to automated test frameworks, Experience leveraging AI/ML tools, Written communication skills, Ability to document complex findings
What You'll Do.
Own customer escalations
Resolve complex database migration issues
Resolve complex replication issues
Lead root cause analysis
Set technical direction
Identify test coverage gaps
Drive product improvements
Raise bar on investigation quality
Raise bar on documentation
Design migration strategies
Validate migration strategies
Collaborate with SDEs
Validate code changes
Drive adoption of AI tools
Improve AI diagnostic tools
Influence product roadmap
Contribute to on-call
Provide guidance on incidents
Ensure quality resolution
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with Principal Engineers; Collaborate with SDEs; Cross-functional teams
Communication Scope
Customer communication; Technical documentation; Executive presentations
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
AWS Database Migration Service has migrated more than 1.5 million workloads to AWS, helping enterprises move from commercial databases (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2) to open-source Aurora and RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL). As a Senior Database Engineer on the DMS team, you will be a technical leader and the highest-severity escalation point for complex database migration and replication issues across multiple engines. You'll own the resolution of the hardest customer problems - the ones that require deep understanding of database internals, replication protocols, and the DMS engine's interaction with source and target systems. You'll set the standard for how the team investigates, diagnoses, and resolves production incidents, and you'll drive systemic improvements that prevent entire categories of issues from reaching customers. This role sits at the intersection of deep database expertise and engineering leadership. You'll mentor DBE2s and SDEs, influence product direction based on patterns you observe across escalations, design test strategies that catch issues before customers hit them, and collaborate directly with Principal Engineers on architecture decisions. You'll also shape how the team leverages AI-powered diagnostic tooling to scale expertise across the organization - making every engineer more effective at database troubleshooting. AWS Database Migration Service is a part of AWS Utility Computing (UC) which provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS's services and features apart in the industry. Key job responsibilities Own resolution of the most complex customer escalations involving heterogeneous database migration and CDC replication - Oracle LogMiner/Binary Reader, SQL Server fn_dblog/CDC, PostgreSQL logical decoding, MySQL binlog parsing - across production environments Lead root cause ana
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