Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer, RDS
United States of America
Full Time
5 days ago
$168,000 - $227,000 USD
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
PostgreSQLRelational Database Service (RDS)Database EngineeringAWSAmazon Web ServicesRDSPostgres
About this role
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the fastest growing cloud platforms, and they are seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer for their Relational Database Service (RDS). In this role, you will work closely with customers and the engineering team to enhance database features, resolve issues, and improve service performance.
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
- By shaping the direction of the RDS service, you make it easier to understand how our service is used by customers, including database developers and administrators
- 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
- As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you’ll create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects
- Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base
- Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders
- Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input
- Work in a startup-like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff
Requirements:
- At least 10 years of experience with PostgreSQL
- At least 5 years operating PostgreSQL systems
- Experience working with customers on how to best use PostgreSQL
- Experience in Postgres, or experience working with customers with a passion for delivering exceptional service