Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer, RDS

Amazon • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Do you want to work in Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL which is
one of the fastest growing AWS businesses? PostgreSQL is the only DBMS that has
been named the database of the year 3 times by DB-Engines DBMS of the year. It
is one of the fastest growing databases in the industry where related expertise
and experience is highly sought after. Our team’s (the Database Engineering Team
for RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL) mission is to build, improve and manage
PostgreSQL as a fully managed database service. This is not a typical DBA or DBE
role where you manage databases for specific customers. Instead, you are an
integral part of the core database engineering team as you will work closely
with developers and product and program managers. You will engage and contribute
in the full product cycle: feature brainstorming, design, implementation,
validation and customer escalation.

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational
services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute
Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to
set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC
organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute,
Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps
services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized
security solutions for their cloud services

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About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of
experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates
knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring
and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and
strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering
expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.

About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted
cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating —
that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies
trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led
affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our
differences.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the
expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of
our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home,
there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s
Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and
other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded
professional.

Requirements

• DBE experience

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree

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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

What This Job Offers

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