Amazon
Database Engineer II - AMZ10322425
$144K–$194K
East Palo Alto, CA · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Experience
- Two years in the job offered or a related occupation; two years in each of the listed skills.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Delivers performance and scalability improvements for large-scale distributed cloud-native database services, including analysis, optimization, tooling, and customer issue resolution.
What you'll do
- Analyze performance bottlenecks, optimize software and workloads, and plan capacity.
- Develop application tools, end-to-end testing, and automated performance regression infrastructure; benchmark hardware and software versions.
- Resolve critical customer performance issues and help drive the database performance roadmap across technical projects.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Two years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
- Two years of experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar OLTP databases; query tuning and storage-system performance analysis; and GCOV, Flamegraphs, or perf.
- Two years of experience with large code bases and C, C++, or Python coding, plus hands-on experience building a performance automation tool.
Pay
$143,500/year to $194,200/year (base salary)
Tools
PostgreSQL, MySQL, GCOV, Flamegraphs, perf, C, C++, Python
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