Amazon - Seattle, WA
posted 2 months ago
As a Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer in the Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL at Amazon, you will be part of a dynamic team that is responsible for building, improving, and managing PostgreSQL as a fully managed database service. This role is not a typical DBA or DBE position; instead, you will be an integral part of the core database engineering team, collaborating closely with developers, product managers, and program managers. Your contributions will span the entire product lifecycle, from feature brainstorming and design to implementation, validation, and customer escalation. In this position, you will work directly with customers to understand their challenges, resolve issues during critical escalations, and teach best practices. Acting as the “voice of the customer,” you will bring valuable insights to the engineering process, helping to design new features and plan comprehensive test scenarios. Your expertise will shape the direction of the RDS service, making it easier for customers, including database developers and administrators, to utilize our offerings effectively. You will actively drive feature enhancements, permanently resolve root causes of issues, and improve the performance of our managed database service. As a subject matter expert, your knowledge will be highly sought after by development, support, and account teams, as well as customers. You will also engage with the open-source community through forums, conferences, and code submissions, extending your knowledge beyond PostgreSQL to other database engines. Your daily responsibilities will include designing and coding solutions to enhance software architecture, creating metrics, implementing automation, and resolving software defects. You will build high-impact solutions for a large customer base, participate in design discussions and code reviews, and communicate effectively with both internal and external stakeholders. Working in a startup-like environment, you will focus on the most critical tasks that drive business success.