Amazon · 2 weeks ago
Database Administrator II, AFT PES Databases
Bellevue, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$100K/yr - $185K/yr
4+ years expAmazon.com is a leading technology company known for its innovative solutions and exceptional customer service. They are seeking a Database Administrator to design, develop, and manage complex databases for the AFT team, ensuring high availability and security while supporting critical operations. The role involves performance tuning, disaster recovery strategies, and collaboration with application development teams.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Develop and improve the current data architecture for AFT Databases on AWS Postgres/MySQL/Redshift
Keep up to date with advances in data persistence and big data technologies and run pilots to design the data architecture to scale with the increased data sets of advertiser experience
Database & Application (SQL & PL/SQL) performance tuning, plan stability, hints, analytical queries
Monitor and maintain database security and database software
Implement replication and disaster recovery strategies
Root cause analysis of production-related database issues
Daily maintenance, monitoring, problem resolution and internal customer/development support
Review, design and develop data models in conjunction with the application development teams
On-call for production databases on a rotation basis
Qualification
Required
4+ years of database administration experience, or Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
Knowledge of SQL, Linux, OLAP, and relational, NoSQL & multi-dimensional databases
Knowledge of AWS services, such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Block Storage (EBS), and Simple Storage Service (S3)
Knowledge of programming or other scripting languages and coding skills (C/C++/C#, Node.JS, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby)
Can work proactively and independently, meet deadlines, and deliver on projects and tasks
Experience handling ambiguous or undefined challenges through strong problem solving abilities
Preferred
5+ years of database (eg. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis) experience
Knowledge of the software development/engineering lifecycle from conception to delivery
Experience in a 24x7 operational services or support environment
Experience in root cause analysis and troubleshooting or problem solving
Experience with performance and scalability testing
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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