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Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect - MySQL, Data & AI GTM

Amazon • Mountain View, California, United States


No Relocation

Posted: August 25, 2026

Description
  • AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain expertise who can address advanced technical concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS Worldwide Specialist Organization
Description
  • AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain expertise who can address advanced technical concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO), SSAs work with customers to solve complex challenges that require expert knowledge. They design scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures to address those challenges. We are looking for a MySQL expert to be our next SSA specializing in Aurora MySQL to help customers architect, migrate, optimize, and operate MySQL workloads on Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS. You will work directly with customer engineers and technology leaders to design well-architected production systems for demanding workloads. You will represent the voice of the customer, sharing feedback with the Aurora service team to influence feature development and the product roadmap. You will provide advanced technical expertise to domain-aligned GTM teams, helping them address customers' most complex and critical business challenges. You will share best practices through blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures, and speaking engagements at AWS Summits, AWS re:Invent, and other events. You will also help build and support an internal AWS community of technical subject matter experts around the world.
Basic Qualifications
  • - 5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience - Experience with any programming language such as Python, Java, C++ - 5+ years of experience in a technology domain such as software development, cloud, systems engineering, infrastructure, or data and analytics. - Hands-on experience with Aurora MySQL or RDS for MySQL. - Experience leading migrations to Aurora as the technical owner. - Experience with Aurora features such as its distributed storage architecture, fast database cloning, Global Database, CloudWatch Database Insights, and Blue/Green Deployments. - Experience architecting or operating MySQL at scale, including multi-terabyte databases, high connection counts, and cross-Region replication.
Preferred Qualifications