Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer, RDS

Amazon • East Palo Alto, CA

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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

Requirements

• Experience in Postgres, or experience working with customers with a passion for delivering exceptional service and experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
• At least 10 years of experience with PostgreSQL
• At least 5 years operating PostgreSQL systems

Nice To Haves

• Experience running an effective operational excellence program

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.
• design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture
• create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed