Database Engineer II - AMZ9674698
Amazon · Seattle, WA · Corporate Operations
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Database Engineer in the data engineering function based in Seattle, WA. The posting calls out experience with Python, SQL, Bash, PostgreSQL.
- Role
- Database Engineer
- Function
- data engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Department
- Corporate Operations
- Posted
- Mar 25, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersMULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC Offered Position: Database Engineer II Job Location: Seattle, Washington Job Number: AMZ9674698 Position Responsibilities: Own the design, implementation, operation, and support of large-scale databases that are crucial to the successful operation of our global E-commerce platform. Support and administer multiple MySQL PostgreSQL databases for performance-critical, highly available, massively concurrent, distributed systems on a Unix/Linux platform, including participating in operational support. Support various layers of databases, including operating systems, hardware, storage, and network configurations. Troubleshoot complex technical problems, and assess and mitigate risks by conducting performance tuning, backup/recovery, and scalability/capacity planning using Linux, system calls, memory management, and debugging. Establish and maintain security and integrity controls, and formulate and monitor policies, procedures relating to data management. Establish and calculate optimum database parameters and specify users and user access levels. Migrate software systems to MySQL PostgreSQL from other software platforms and deploy MySQL PostgreSQL software in performance-critical, high availability environments. Provide support for system upgrades and new system releases, and perform database monitoring using SQL, PL/SQL, Unix shell scripting, and Python or Perl, security monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of system failures. Work with the Software development team to deliver highly available, low latency services. Gather…