Database Administrator, Digital Commerce Platform Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

The Digital DBA team is a central part of a vibrant and growing set of teams focused on high availability and performance of the overall Digital experience and consists of DBAs supporting specialized teams of software development engineers building and supporting the services behind Amazon digital businesses like music, video, digital devices, etc. As a Database Administrator you will be providing high quality and availability databases across the Digital Commerce Services

The successful candidate will have expert level skills in relevant database technologies, understand business requirements and technical implementation of distributed services architectures, and have a demonstrated ability to collaborate with engineering teams in other geographies to define and implement broad, business-wide standards for the way databases are designed and implemented. Next, strategy will be translated into efficient and scalable implementation methodologies and tracked by meaningful metrics.

Responsibilities:

* Database & Application (SQL) performance tuning
* Monitor and maintain database security and database software
* Design, develop, implement and maintain PostgreSQL database instances
* Backup and recovery
* 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
* Test, validate and implement performance and resource solutions
* Design, develop, implement and maintain new tools to manage, upgrade and monitor a large fleet of databases (around 120)
* On-call for production databases on a rotation basis