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Description

Do you want to work on Aurora PostgreSQL and Limitless Database? Do you like helping customers migrate, scale, and shard high volume transactional databases? Built on Aurora PostgreSQL architecture, Aurora Limitless Database enables customers to scale Aurora PostgreSQL clusters to millions of write transactions per second and manage petabytes of data. You will be working on challenging technical areas such as distributed transaction, data migration, and sharding strategies. PostgreSQL was 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 Database Engineering team works with strategic customers to help scale and optimize database workloads and design, build, and improve the Aurora 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 service team as you will work closely with developers and product and program managers. You will engage and contribute in the full product cycle: customer need analysis, feature brainstorming, design, implementation, validation and customer adoption.

Key job responsibilities

• You work closely with customers to design solutions to migrate their data from traditional DBMS to the Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database.

• 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 Aurora Database 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 will contribute to automation solutions to improve the operational efficiency of the entire 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 field teams, and customers directly.

• You will interact with the open-source community via forums, conferences and feature or bug-fix code submissions.

A day in the life

Work closely with SDEs to design new features in Aurora Postgres such as creating a workload management extension. Attend daily scrum meeting with SDEs, contribute to design doc, and review test docs. Engage with a customer on critical service issues, guide the customer on troubleshooting, educate the customer on Postgres's best practice, manage customer's sentiment, and provide database level technical solutions. Write official documentation and blogs for both open source and Aurora Postgres.

About the team

The team is comprised of a small group of highly skilled and motivated Postgres experts. The team's culture is we value open and direct communication, we value collaboration and not just the end result, we value learning new things every day, and we value work-life balance. We don't have artificial boundaries on job responsibilities. You have a wide latitude of freedom on your technical contributions. You can develop your skills by diving deep or building up the breath. We also encourage team members to engage the Postgres open-source communities and contribute to it.

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 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. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

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.

Hybrid Work

We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our US Amazon offices. Our hybrid models allow you the freedom to work from home whenever in-office collaboration isn’t necessary.

Basic Qualifications

• 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.

• Experience tuning and troubleshooting high volume database systems

• Experience in Oracle to Postgres database migrations.

• Awareness of customer workloads and use cases, including performance, availability and scalability.

• Working knowledge of relational database internals (locking, consistency, serialization, recovery paths).

• Coding skills in the procedural language for at least one database engine a must (PL/SQL, T-SQL etc.)

• Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl).

• Working knowledge of at least one application programming language (Java, C#, C/C++, Rust, Go).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience migrating from traditional DBMS to distributed transactional database services.

• Experience developing and converting Oracle databases, schemas, and PL/SQL.

• Working knowledge of internals of distributed transactional database such as Yugabyte, CockroachDB, TiDB or Google Spanner.

• Experience developing extensions or patches for PostgreSQL project or ecosystem.

• Software development or consulting experience.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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 Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $131,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $227,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on 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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.