Amazon
Database Engineer, AWS DMS
$125K–$169K
Boston, MA · Full-time · Posted Jun 5, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of relational database technology experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or mathematics, or equivalent, or experience with database administration; the posting also separately lists a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Diagnoses complex database migration and replication issues for AWS DMS customers and builds tools and software improvements to make migrations more reliable.
What you'll do
- Troubleshoot customer issues involving database performance, corruption, replication, CDC, and schema migration.
- Build automation, diagnostic scripts, and tools; collaborate with software engineers to trace and resolve defects.
- Investigate issues across AWS services and document findings in root cause analyses, runbooks, and knowledge base articles.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of relational database technology experience.
- Experience with at least one scripting language and a procedural language for at least one database.
- Experience in Linux/RHEL and either Bigdata architecture or strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or mathematics, or equivalent, or experience with database administration; the posting also separately lists a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of database design and implementation.
- Experience with debugging, profiling, automation, version control, or supporting large-scale infrastructure.
Pay
124,700.00 - 168,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, Python, Bash, Perl
AI focus
The team uses AI for autonomous bug-fixing and an on-call agent that reduces troubleshooting time.
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