Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer, RDS (AWS)

Amazon; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 145,900 - 197,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life & AD&D insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Mental health support

Job summary

Amazon in Redmond, WA is building a fully managed PostgreSQL service for the Relational Database Service (RDS) team. This role collaborates with customers to understand challenges, resolve escalations, and share best practices.

You will influence engineering by voicing customer learnings, plan end-to-end test scenarios, and drive improvements in the managed database service. The candidate will act as the database SME across development and support teams, engage with the open-source community,

Qualifications

• DBE experience.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with customers to understand challenges, solve issues during critical escalations, and teach best practices.
• Act as the voice of the customer to bring learnings to the engineering process, design new features, and plan end-to-end test scenarios.
• Drive feature enhancements, permanently resolve root causes of issues, and improve the performance of the managed database service.
• Serve as the ultimate subject matter expert for all things databases, working with development, support, account, and customer teams.
• Interact with the open‑source community through forums, conferences, and feature or bug‑fix code submissions.
• Extend knowledge to other database engines beyond PostgreSQL.

Skills

DBE experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Role Overview

Build, improve, and manage PostgreSQL as a fully managed database service for the Relational Database Service (RDS) team at Amazon Web Services.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with customers to understand their challenges, solve issues during critical escalations, and teach best practices.
• Act as the voice of the customer to bring learnings to the engineering process, design new features, and plan end-to-end test scenarios.
• Drive feature enhancements, permanently resolve root causes of issues, and improve the performance of the managed database service.
• Serve as the ultimate subject matter expert for all things databases, working with development, support, account, and customer teams.
• Interact with the open‑source community through forums, conferences, and feature or bug‑fix code submissions.
• Extend knowledge to other database engines beyond PostgreSQL.

Basic Qualifications

• DBE experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.

Benefits

A comprehensive benefits package includes health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription), Basic Life & AD&D insurance, Supplemental life plans, Employee Assistance Program, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

Location & Compensation

Redmond, WA, USA – Salary range: $145,900.00 to $197,400.00 annually.

EEO Statement

Amazon is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.