Remote Senior PostgreSQL Cloud DB Engineer

Socket.dev; Town of Florida (NY); Hybrid; USD 146,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a highly skilled engineer to join the Database Engineering Team for RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL. You will work closely with developers, product managers, and customers to shape the direction of the RDS service, focusing on PostgreSQL as a fully managed database.

This is a hands-on role touching design, implementation, validation, and customer escalation. You’ll engage with the open-source community and collaborate cross-functionally to drive feature

Qualifications

• Experience in software development, or experience in Postgres.
• 7+ years of data engineering experience.

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.

Skills

Postgres

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a highly skilled engineer to join the Database Engineering Team for RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL. You will work closely with developers, product managers, and customers to shape the direction of the RDS service, focusing on PostgreSQL as a fully managed database.

This is a hands-on role touching design, implementation, validation, and customer escalation. You’ll engage with the open-source community and collaborate cross-functionally to drive feature