Senior PostgreSQL Cloud Database Engineer

Amazon

Netherlands

Remote

EUR 90,000 - 140,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Amazon Development Center (Netherlands) B.V. is seeking a database-focused engineer to help shape and operate RDS for PostgreSQL as a fully managed service. You will collaborate with developers, product managers and customers to define features, tests and performance improvements.

The role requires PostgreSQL experience or a strong software development background, and ideally data engineering know-how. You will engage with the open-source community and help extend knowledge beyond PostgreSQL

Qualifications

Experience in Postgres, or experience in software development
Experience in data engineering

Responsibilities

You work closely with our customers to understand their challenges, solve issues during critical escalations, and teach best practices.
You, acting as the 'voice of the customer', bring learnings to the engineering process to design new features and plan end-to-end test scenarios. By shaping the direction of the RDS service, you make it easier to understand how our service is used by customers, including database developers and administrators.
You will actively drive feature enhancements, permanently resolve the root causes of issues, and improve the performance of our managed database service.
You are viewed as the ultimate subject matter expertise for all things databases as your work will be highly sought by the development team, the support team, the account team and customers directly.
You will interact with the open-source community via forums, conferences and feature or bug-fix code submissions.
You will extend your knowledge to other database engines and not limited to PostgreSQL.