Database Developer, AWS

OpenTalent; Washington; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Peregrine Advisors in the Washington, DC metro area is seeking a senior developer to build and maintain the queries, stored procedures, and views that power a federal agency data platform on Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL-compatible). You will grow toward owning physical design and work with DynamoDB, S3, and Apache Iceberg.

This hybrid role requires sole US citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust determination.

Qualifications

• Sole United States citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain Public Trust determination.
• Experience building data platforms on AWS data services.
• Experience with relational and columnar data stores.
• Hybrid role based in the Washington, DC metro area.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain queries, stored procedures, and views on Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL-compatible).
• Work with DynamoDB, S3, and Apache Iceberg integration.
• Handle query tuning, data loading, and governance.
• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, architects and strategists.
• Own outcomes and deliver auditable solutions.

Skills

SQL development

Stored procedures

Views design

Aurora PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

S3

Iceberg tables

Query tuning

Data loading

Version control

Tools

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Job description

Peregrine Advisors is a firm founded on a simple conviction: the best solutions come from the people closest to the problem, given real ownership and the tools to deliver. We are a data and technology innovation hub and a Benefit Corporation working at the center of the federal government's mission to deliver for client stakeholders and the US public, looking for highly motivated contributors who thrive when trusted to own a hard problem and equipped to deliver the solution.

Your first assignment is to build and maintain the queries, stored procedures, and views that make a federal agency's enterprise data platform useful, working on Amazon Aurora and the platform stores beside it under a senior developer's design. You will grow toward owning physical design yourself. The work is real, hard, and it matters. It is also where you start, not the shape of your career here: we hire people, not seats, and we move our best to where the hardest problems are.

• Reliable SQL, stored procedures, and views on Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL-compatible), working with DynamoDB, S3, and Apache Iceberg tables, that turn raw data into something people can use.
• The plumbing behind them: query tuning, S3 data loads into the platform stores, and connectivity, all under governed access.
• In time, the firm itself: new capabilities, tools, and lines of business you help spin up.

You are a builder who likes SQL and cares about getting data right. You are early enough in your path to grow fast, and hungry enough to want to own more. You experiment, fail, learn, and repeat quickly. You would rather own an outcome than be handed a task.

• Solid SQL on a modern relational platform (Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL-compatible), writing stored procedures and views that hold up.
• The working craft around it: query tuning, data loading, and connectivity, with version control and clean delivery.
• The drive to grow toward owning physical design, and the judgment to work where accuracy and auditability are not optional.

Sole United States citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust determination are required for this initial engagement. This is a hybrid role based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and it requires commuting into DC regularly. Everything else, the years, the certifications, the specific tools, we ask in the application and get into during the interview.

A high-performing team of developers, engineers, data scientists, architects, and strategists solving complex, real-world problems, with work that runs from strategy formulation to hands-on implementation. We develop people across roles and clients, with extensive onboarding and sponsored training and professional development. And Peregrine has been a Benefit Corporation from day one: public value is built into the work itself, not bolted on afterward. Work worth your best years.