Senior PostgreSQL & Cloud Database Engineer (RDS/Aurora)

Amazon

East Palo Alto (CA)

On-site

USD 168,000 - 227,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Amazon Web Services is seeking an experienced PostgreSQL-focused engineer to join the RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL team in a role that blends database engineering with customer-facing responsibilities. You will work closely with developers and product managers to design, implement, validate, and escalate customer issues as part of the core database engineering effort.

You will serve as a subject matter expert for PostgreSQL, interact with the open-source community, and help shape the end-to-end feature

Qualifications

  • You must have 10+ years of experience with PostgreSQL.
  • You must have 5+ years operating PostgreSQL systems.
  • Experience working with customers on how to best use PostgreSQL.
  • Preferred: experience in Postgres, or working with customers with a passion for delivering exceptional service.

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.
  • 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.

Job description

Amazon Web Services is seeking an experienced PostgreSQL-focused engineer to join the RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL team in a role that blends database engineering with customer-facing responsibilities. You will work closely with developers and product managers to design, implement, validate, and escalate customer issues as part of the core database engineering effort.

You will serve as a subject matter expert for PostgreSQL, interact with the open-source community, and help shape the end-to-end feature

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