Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer RDS

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 DBEngines 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 teams (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 Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll 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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Key job 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 endtoend 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 opensource community via forums conferences and feature or bugfix code submissions.
You will extend your knowledge to other database engines and not limited to PostgreSQL.

A day in the life
As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture youll create metrics implement automation and other improvements and resolve the root cause of software defects. Youll also:
Build highimpact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
Participate in design discussions code review and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
Work crossfunctionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
Work in a startuplike development environment where youre always working on the most important stuff.

About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledgesharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy oneonone 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.

Diverse Experiences
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About AWS
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
We value worklife 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 theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship & Career Growth
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8 years experience building and maintaining complex missioncritical production database systems such as Postgres Oracle MySQL Microsoft SQL Server.
5 years experience designing and maintaining PostgreSQL relational databases.
5 years experience working directly with customers resolving database systems and infrastructurerelated issues and also providing systems architecture leadership.
Awareness of customer workloads and use cases including performance availability and scalability.
Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking consistency serialization recovery paths).
Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell Python Perl).
Working knowledge of at least one application programming language (Java C# C C Go).
Coding skills in the procedural language for at least one database engine is a must (PL/SQL TSQL etc.

Experience supporting large analytical data warehousing databases with knowledge of ETL environments.
Experience migrating databases from commercial engines to PostgreSQL
Experience migrating application code from commercial database engines to PostgreSQL.
Storage engineering experience including NAS SAN SSD multipathing and caching.
Experience developing extensions or patches for PostgreSQL project or ecosystem.
Software development or consulting experience

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $131400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $227000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.