Senior Aurora PostgreSQL Specialist & Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 169,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Specialist Solutions Architect for Aurora PostgreSQL to help some of AWS's largest customers architect, migrate, and operate PostgreSQL workloads on Aurora and RDS.

This role emphasizes deep PostgreSQL expertise, migrations from Oracle/SQL Server, and leadership across the PostgreSQL community. You will partner with customer engineers, design production architectures that scale under real-world pressure, and contribute to the product roadmap and best

Qualifications

• Deep PostgreSQL knowledge and experience.
• Experience with Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL.
• Ability to design well-architected production architectures.
• Comfort presenting at events and publishing technical content.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical advisor for AWS's key customers running or migrating to Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL, providing hands-on architectural guidance from design through production operation.
• Guide customers on Aurora PostgreSQL operational best practices including performance & scaling, high availability & durability, monitoring & observability, maintenance & patching, backup & recovery, security and operational hygiene
• Design and validate Aurora PostgreSQL architectures that leverage Aurora-specific capabilities including storage auto-scaling, read replica scaling, Global Database, HA/DR, Serverless, ensuring customers realize the full value of the platform.
• Partner with the Aurora service team as the voice of the customer, surfacing recurring pain points, advocating for feature enhancements, and participating in roadmap reviews.
• Engage with customer engineers in whiteboard sessions, architecture reviews, and technical deep dives, providing candid guidance and pushing back diplomatically when a proposed design will not hold up at scale.
• Develop and publish technical thought leadership content including blogs, reference architectures, white papers, and re-usable artifacts, that elevate the broader PostgreSQL community on AWS.
• Advise customers complex database migrations (Oracle, SQL Server, and other engines to Aurora PostgreSQL).
• Present at key industry events including AWS re:Invent, AWS Summits, PostgreSQL community conferences (PGConf, PGDay), and customer-facing workshops.
• Stay current with PostgreSQL community developments (new major versions, extensions ecosystem, community tooling) and translate those advancements into actionable guidance for AWS customers.

Skills

PostgreSQL expertise

Aurora PostgreSQL

Architectural guidance

Public speaking

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Specialist Solutions Architect for Aurora PostgreSQL to help some of AWS's largest customers architect, migrate, and operate PostgreSQL workloads on Aurora and RDS.

This role emphasizes deep PostgreSQL expertise, migrations from Oracle/SQL Server, and leadership across the PostgreSQL community. You will partner with customer engineers, design production architectures that scale under real-world pressure, and contribute to the product roadmap and best