PostgreSQL Database Developer (AWS)

OpenDataJobs • Washington, DC

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Peregrine Advisors is a firm founded on a simple conviction: the best solutions come from the people closest to the problem, given real ownership and the tools to deliver. We are a data and technology innovation hub and a Benefit Corporation working at the center of the federal government's mission to deliver for client stakeholders and the US public, looking for highly motivated contributors who thrive when trusted to own a hard problem and equipped to deliver the solution. Your first assignment is to build and maintain the queries, stored procedures, and views that make a federal agency's enterprise data platform useful, working on Amazon Aurora and the platform stores beside it under a senior developer's design. You will grow toward owning physical design yourself. The work is real, hard, and it matters. It is also where you start, not the shape of your career here: we hire people, not seats, and we move our best to where the hardest problems are. You will build reliable SQL, stored procedures, and views on Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL-compatible), working with DynamoDB, S3, and Apache Iceberg tables, that turn raw data into something people can use. The plumbing behind them: query tuning, S3 data loads into the platform stores, and connectivity, all under governed access. In time, the firm itself: new capabilities, tools, and lines of business you help spin up. You are a builder who likes SQL and cares about getting data right. You are early enough in your path to grow fast, and hungry enough to want to own more. You experiment, fail, learn, and repeat quickly. You would rather own an outcome than be handed a task.

Requirements

• Sole United States citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust determination.
• Hybrid role based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, requiring regular commuting into DC.
• 4+ years of database development experience.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• SQL on Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL-compatible).
• Experience working with DynamoDB, S3, and Apache Iceberg tables.
• Experience with stored procedures, views, and query tuning.
• Experience with data loading (S3 into the platform stores) and ODBC/JDBC connectivity.
• Basic proficiency in writing, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Nice To Haves

• Physical-design ownership of the Aurora and Iceberg stores, or the drive to grow into it.
• Apache Ranger-governed access.
• Federal information technology or high-volume transaction experience.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain queries, stored procedures, and views on Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL-compatible).
• Work with DynamoDB, S3, and Apache Iceberg tables.
• Perform query tuning.
• Handle S3 data loads into platform stores.
• Manage connectivity.
• Grow toward owning physical design.
• Develop new capabilities, tools, and lines of business.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision with the employee premium fully paid and half of dependent premiums.
• Employer-paid life, accidental death, and short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• A 401(k) matched 100% up to 4% of salary, vesting immediately.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• Sponsored professional certifications and continuing education.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level