Manager, Database Engineering (AWS)

Job description

DESCRIPTION

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are the public cloud. AWS commands a majority of the world's public cloud traffic, serving over 1 million customers, and this volume is growing exponentially every day. Our team provides the data persistence platform that AWS is built upon.

At Amazon/AWS, we take databases to their limits. Due to our scale, we see issues that no other RDBMS customers see. We are creatively and disruptively solving some of the most complex database problems related to immense growth, scaling, leveraging the cloud, extremely high performance and high availability requirements. Do these types of challenges excite you? if so ....

AWS Database Services is currently looking for a talented Database Engineering Manager with 5 to 10+ years of technical and leadership experience for its Seattle office. The manager will own administration and engineering for thousands of production database systems (legacy and cloud based). The ideal candidate will be responsible for fast-paced complex distributed database environments supporting primarily OLTP on a UNIX/Linux platform. Successful candidates will have the ability to rapidly troubleshoot complex technical problems under pressure.

Technical:

- You are an expert database engineer/administrator with experience managing massive high transaction, Tier 1 database systems
- You have depth in database technologies, specifically high performance systems.
- You have expert hands on experience with several database engines, including Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Redshift, Teradata.
- You have hands on experience running large database systems exceeding several petabytes.
- You have used and are familiar with the AWS family of cloud services. Your AWS knowledge is not textbook, but hands on and diverse.
- You can get your hands dirty. You are hands-on when needed.
- Software development experience is a huge plus.

Leadership:

- You have had success recruiting, managing and developing a large, geographically diverse group of world class engineers.
- You have consistently driven improvements and work hard to identify true root causes of systemic issues and fix them the first time.
- You can write and present effectively. You have proven experience with authoring roadmap documents, project plans, RCAs, and team development documents. You are able to speak with clarity and influence to entry level engineers and technical/business leadership alike.
- You are curious, you take the time to learn and stay abreast of upcoming technologies and industry trends.
- You take the time to learn about your customers businesses and ensure that your team is aligned with those priorities.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years managing database engineering/administration teams and operations.
- 3+ years of team management, recruiting and development.

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Management, Mathematics, Physical Sciences or a related quantitative field
- Minimum of 10 years Database Engineering experience with administering and supporting multiple RDBMS databases for performance critical, highly available systems on UNIX/Linux platform (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, MariaDB)
- Minimum of 5 years data modeling experience with conducting performance tuning, backup/recovery, and scalability/capacity planning, in addition to SQL, PL/SQL, and UNIX shell scripting
- Minimum 3 years of experience running massive scale systems in AWS RDS or similar.
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
- Experience managing servers in large-scale, geographically diverse environments.
- Excellent SQL and DB performance tuning skills.