Job Description

DESCRIPTION

*** The position is open to multiple West Coast locations: Seattle/Palo Alto/Vancouver ***

DBSO Technical Benchmarking team. The goal is to establish performance benchmarks and quality metrics across all DBS products.

These benchmarks will embrace a mixture of Amazon customer obsessive metrics as well industry standard performance measurement techniques to validate services as they innovate and evolve.

This Position is focussed on Analytics Services.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-live balance. It isnt about how many hours you spend at home or at work; its about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates must have some of the following skills:
Deep knowledge and experience designing and maintaining relational/non-relational databases for analytics including Oracle, Redshift, Snowflake, Teradata, Greenplumb and Map Reduce techniques including Spark
Knowledge of Industry standard and open source database Benchmarks including TPC-H and TPC-DS
Database design techniques, code development, debugging and the ability to articulate verbally algorithms used and their flaws
Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (EC2, EBS, S3, etc.)
Systems engineering experience, including Linux performance, memory management, I/O tuning, configuration, security, networking, clusters and troubleshooting.
Broad awareness of customer workloads and use cases, including performance, availability and scalability
Experience analyzing issues holistically, from the application tier through the database, down to the storage.
Experience working directly with customers, resolving database, systems and infrastructure-related issues and also providing systems architecture leadership.
Awareness of emerging technologies and approaches in IT
Working knowledge of database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths, use of parallelism )
Proven track record of automating tasks
Excellent communication skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

6+ years of experience of engineering leadership in the database industry involving the popular database products and environments (e.g. Oracle, Redshift, Snowflake, Spark)
Extensive knowledge of SQL, Map Reduce Techniques
Track record of developing performance simulation and measurement techniques
Experience of presentation of performance results to Senior leadership in both engineering and business discussions.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities
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