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Job summary
Amazon Web Services is looking for a talented, passionate Senior Developer Advocate to drive adoption of upstream PostgreSQL and community engagement with the PostgreSQL Global Development Group (PGDG).

Amazon Developer Advocates (DAs) work to represent our customers from within the product team during all phases of product development. We leverage our hands-on technical experience and data we gather through our relationships with our customers to influence the product roadmap. We work alongside Product Managers and engineering teams to help design, build, and launch the best features possible to address our customers' biggest challenges. We work to identify, anticipate, and solve customer challenges. We engage directly with our technical customer and PGDG communities, and we pride ourselves on our ability to communicate complex technical content with simplicity and honesty.

This is a rare opportunity to work with a high impact team, focusing on a growing service and on innovative technology.

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Developer Advocate in the Amazon RDS Open Source team, you will work to earn trust with our customers and PGDG through your technical leadership and expertise. This is a high-impact role that's well-suited to someone with domain-specific technical experience that enjoys sharing what they have learned in order to help customers solve their technical issues and overcome any challenges they face. Your primary focus will be engaging with and bringing feedback back to PGDG from our developer community. You will produce technical content to help our customers learn about new features, and guide their plans for adoption and growth. You'll offer opinionated and timely guidance on how to make the most of the features and functions of PostgreSQL. This content includes blog posts, technical presentations, workshops, and video content. You will work with open source customers, developers, and the broader open source community to create sample code and demo applications to help communicate complex ideas and scenarios, and engage directly with the community.

A day in the life

In this role, you will spend time to learn and experiment on your customers€™ behalf. This experience will inform your influence on the product roadmap. You will work alongside product managers and engineering teams to define, design, test, and launch new features. You will identify gaps in the PostgreSQL engine and documentation, and have direct impact on addressing those gaps. You will work with marketers to identify areas to engage the community, amplify the materials and resources you create, and identify areas of improvement in our public content for PostgreSQL.

About the team
Amazon RDS Open Source team contributes to the upstream PGDG community as needed to enhance set up, operation, monitoring, backup, and scaling of PostgreSQL to drive adoption.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

6+ years of technical experience in Development, DevOps, SRE, Developer Advocacy or a similar role
2+ years€™ experience in a role which includes writing and speaking on technical topics
2+ years€™ experience with Open Source databases as a developer, operator, or advocate.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Open source experience, familiar with upstream workflows and tools including GitHub and git.
Specific open source experience with PostgreSQL or other related open source projects. All contributions are applicable: reviews, documentation changes, code, conversation.
SQL development experience in your preferred programming language(s).
Project or product team leadership experience.

The pay range for this position in Colorado is $182K - $267K/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or external careers site.

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.

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

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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