1 day ago
East Palo Alto, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Engineer performance and scalability improvements for large-scale, distributed, cloud-native database services.
- Conduct performance analysis, detect and fix bottlenecks, and optimize software and workloads.
- Resolve customer performance issues and design application tools, system architecture, and end-to-end tests.
- Build automated performance regression infrastructure and benchmark new hardware and software versions.
- Perform capacity planning and contribute to the performance roadmap for cost-effective database services.
- Manage multiple technical projects while aligning schedules, milestones, and priorities with technology and business goals.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Two years of experience in the offered position or a related occupation.
- Two years of experience working with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar OLTP databases.
- Two years of hands-on experience with query tuning and storage-system performance analysis.
- Two years of experience using at least one of GCOV, Flamegraphs, or perf.
- Two years of experience working on large codebases and coding in C, C++, or Python.
- Two years of hands-on experience building a performance automation tool.
Benefits
- Full range of medical, financial, and other employee benefits may be provided.
- Equity, sign-on payments, and other compensation may be included in the total compensation package.
- Full-time schedule of 40 hours per week, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- Work location is East Palo Alto, California.
Tech Stack
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.