Senior PostgreSQL RDS Engineer: Shape the Cloud DBaaS

Amazon; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Database Engineer for PostgreSQL in the RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL team in the Redmond, WA area. You will partner with developers, product managers, and program managers to influence the full product lifecycle, from feature brainstorming to design, implementation, validation, and customer escalation.

You will engage with customers to understand challenges, drive feature enhancements, and ensure performance improvements across the managed database service.

Qualifications

• DBE 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.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Database Engineer for PostgreSQL in the RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL team in the Redmond, WA area. You will partner with developers, product managers, and program managers to influence the full product lifecycle, from feature brainstorming to design, implementation, validation, and customer escalation.

You will engage with customers to understand challenges, drive feature enhancements, and ensure performance improvements across the managed database service.