Amazon Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer RDS 

United States, California, East Palo Alto 

15793498

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 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.A day in the life
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. You’ll also:Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.Work in a startup-like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.About AWSWork/Life Balance
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• 8 years’ experience building and maintaining complex mission-critical 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 infrastructure-related 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, T-SQL 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, multi-pathing and caching.
• Experience developing extensions or patches for PostgreSQL project or ecosystem.
• Software development or consulting experience