Are you a builder that lives and breathes PostgreSQL? Have you spent years tuning vacuum behavior, diagnosing lock contention under heavy OLTP workloads, reasoning about query planner decisions, managing replication topologies, and guiding large-scale migrations from commercial engines like Oracle and SQL Server? Are you the person your organization turns to when a Postgres system is misbehaving at 3 AM and when leadership needs a whiteboard session on where the data platform is headed next? As a Specialist Solutions Architect for Aurora PostgreSQL, you will be the technical authority that AWS's largest and most complex customers rely on to architect, migrate, and operate PostgreSQL workloads on Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS.
This is not a generalist database role. You will focus on Aurora PostgreSQL, going deep where others go broad. You will partner directly with customer engineers and CTOs to design well‑architected production architectures that hold up under real‑world pressure and the operational patterns that distinguish battle‑tested Postgres practitioners from those with only surface‑level familiarity. You will have experience with migrations (Oracle/SQL Server/on‑premises Postgres to Aurora). You will collaborate closely with the Aurora service team to surface customer patterns, advocate for feature enhancements, and drive the product roadmap on behalf of the customers you serve.
Equally important, you will operate as a thought leader and force multiplier across the broader Specialist SA organization, mentoring teammates, publishing technical content, presenting at AWS re:Invent and AWS Summits, and establishing repeatable frameworks that raise the bar for PostgreSQL engagements worldwide.
Key job responsibilities
* Serve as the technical advisor for AWS's key customers running or migrating to Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL, providing hands‑on architectural guidance from design through production operation.
* Guide customers on Aurora PostgreSQL operational best practices including performance & scaling, high availability & durability, monitoring & observability, maintenance & patching, backup & recovery, security and operational hygiene.
* Design and validate Aurora PostgreSQL architectures that leverage Aurora‑specific capabilities including storage auto‑scaling, read replica scaling, Global Database, HA/DR, Serverless, ensuring customers realize the full value of the platform.
* Partner with the Aurora service team as the voice of the customer, surfacing recurring pain points, advocating for feature enhancements, and participating in roadmap reviews.
* Engage with customer engineers in whiteboard sessions, architecture reviews, and technical deep dives, providing candid guidance and pushing back diplomatically when a proposed design will not hold up at scale.
* Develop and publish technical thought leadership content including blogs, reference architectures, white papers, and reusable artifacts that elevate the broader PostgreSQL community on AWS.
* Advise customers on complex database migrations (Oracle, SQL Server, and other engines to Aurora PostgreSQL).
* Present at key industry events including AWS re:Invent, AWS Summits, PostgreSQL community conferences (PGConf, PGDay), and customer‑facing workshops.
* Stay current with PostgreSQL community developments (new major versions, extensions ecosystem, community tooling) and translate those advancements into actionable guidance for AWS customers.
Basic Qualifications
* 7+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience.
* Experience in Postgres or experience in software development and experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems.
* Experience communicating across technical and non‑technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients.
* Experience with database management systems.
* 5+ years of customer‑facing work, engaging with customer executives, technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies.
* Expertise in PostgreSQL internals and operational practices: MVCC and vacuum behavior, query planner and optimizer internals, pgvector, indexing strategies (B‑tree, GIN, GiST, BRIN), replication (streaming, logical), extension ecosystem/architecture, and connection management.
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience in Postgres or experience in technical support and experience in any Big Data architecture.
* Experience in software development or experience demonstrating software engineering skills in a previous internship, work experience, coding competitions, or publications and experience with programming/scripting (Batch, VB, PowerShell, Java, C#, Chef, Perl, Ruby and/or PHP).
* Experience working in a technology sales organization.
* Hands‑on experience with Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS for PostgreSQL, or significant hands‑on time with AWS database and migration services (DMS, SCT).
* Led migrations to Aurora as the technical owner.
* Experience with Aurora‑specific features: storage architecture, fast cloning, Global Database, Performance/Database Insights, and Blue/Green Deployments.
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