Sr. Software Dev Engineer, PostgreSQL Contributors

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.

The AWS RDS PostgreSQL Contributors team is looking for a remote Senior PostgreSQL Engineer to provide PostgreSQL database engine internals and community expertise. You will join a world-class team of engineers collaborating in the open with the PostgreSQL project.

You will contribute to open source PostgreSQL or related projects at the core project source code level (primarily C language), and while directly interacting with the PostgreSQL Development Group on the postgresql.org mailing lists (typically pgsql-hackers) or the equivalent for other projects. Your work will include, but is not limited to :

• Features
• Fixes
• Drivers
• Extensions
• Patch review
• Testing
• Security
• Performance
• Benchmarking
• Development / commitfest discussions

Key job responsibilities

Author, review, and commit / push PostgreSQL core database engine code to the central PostgreSQL open source git repository. Discuss designs, architecture, bugs, and other PostgreSQL community business on the public PostgreSQL mailing lists.

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