Senior PostgreSQL RDS Engineer — Build & Scale Managed DB

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Miami (FL); On-site; USD 146,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in the United States is seeking a Senior Database Engineer for RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL. You will work with developers, product and program managers to design, implement, validate and ship features for a fully managed PostgreSQL service.

You will engage with customers, drive performance improvements, and extend expertise to other database engines. This is a fast-growing team that values mentorship, collaboration, and a strong focus on reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience in software development or PostgreSQL.
• 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.
• 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

Software development experience

PostgreSQL experience

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in the United States is seeking a Senior Database Engineer for RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL. You will work with developers, product and program managers to design, implement, validate and ship features for a fully managed PostgreSQL service.

You will engage with customers, drive performance improvements, and extend expertise to other database engines. This is a fast-growing team that values mentorship, collaboration, and a strong focus on reliability.