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Senior Database Engineer, Aurora and Open Source

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Hybrid (Redmond), Hybrid (East Palo Alto)$145.9k - $197.4kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Database Engineer focused on Aurora and open-source collaboration within AWS UC. Drive customer-facing database feature development, performance improvements, and open-source engagements as part of the core Aurora database service team.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with customers to understand challenges, assist during escalations, and teach best practices.
  • Act as the voice of the customer to inform engineering process, design new features, and plan end-to-end test scenarios.
  • Drive feature enhancements, resolve root causes, and improve performance of the managed database service.
  • Contribute to automation solutions to improve operational efficiency of the database service.
  • Be a subject-matter expert for databases, collaborating with development, support, field teams, and customers.
  • Interact with the open-source community via forums, conferences, and code submissions like feature or bug fixes.
  • Design new database features with software engineers, attend daily scrums, contribute to design docs, and provide testing coverage scenarios.
  • Engage with customers on critical service issues, guide troubleshooting, and educate on best practices and database solutions.
  • Write official documentation and blogs for both open source and Aurora.

Qualifications

  • 5+ Knowledge of concepts like system architecture, optimization, system dynamics, system analysis, statistical analysis, reliability analysis, and decision making
  • 5+ years of relational database technology (such as Redshift, Oracle, MySQL or MS SQL) experience
  • 5+ Experience troubleshooting skills at all levels, from application to network to host
  • 3+ Experience in operations of highly available and scalable internet systems with a large customer base
  • 3+ Knowledge of the primary AWS services such as EC2, ELB, RDS, VPC, Route53, and S3

Skills

Required:Database engineeringOpen source collaboration

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and life/AD&D insurance options
  • 401(k) matching
  • paid time off
  • parenal leave
  • RSUs and sign-on payments included as part of compensation package
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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