Database Developer, AWS/PostgreSQL

Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Department: Peregrine Advisors

Workplace: hybrid

Employment Type: full

Description

Peregrine Advisors is a firm founded on a simple conviction: the best solutions come from the people closest to the problem, given real ownership and the tools to deliver. We are a data and technology innovation hub and a Benefit Corporation working at the center of the federal government's mission to deliver for client stakeholders and the US public, looking for highly motivated contributors who thrive when trusted to own a hard problem and equipped to deliver the solution.

Your first assignment

Your first assignment is to build and maintain the queries, stored procedures, and views that make a federal agency's enterprise data platform useful, working on Amazon Aurora and the platform stores beside it under a senior developer's design. You will grow toward owning physical design yourself. The work is real, hard, and it matters. It is also where you start, not the shape of your career here: we hire people, not seats, and we move our best to where the hardest problems are.

What you'll build

• Reliable SQL, stored procedures, and views on Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL-compatible), working with DynamoDB, S3, and Apache Iceberg tables, that turn raw data into something people can use.
• The plumbing behind them: query tuning, S3 data loads into the platform stores, and connectivity, all under governed access.
• In time, the firm itself: new capabilities, tools, and lines of business you help spin up.

Who you are

You are a builder who likes SQL and cares about getting data right. You are early enough in your path to grow fast, and hungry enough to want to own more. You experiment, fail, learn, and repeat quickly. You would rather own an outcome than be handed a task.

What you bring

• Solid SQL on a modern relational platform (Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL-compatible), writing stored procedures and views that hold up.
• The working craft around it: query tuning, data loading, and connectivity, with version control and clean delivery.
• The drive to grow toward owning physical design, and the judgment to work where accuracy and auditability are not optional.

What you'll need

Sole United States citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust determination are required for this initial engagement. This is a hybrid role based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and it requires commuting into DC regularly. Everything else, the years, the certifications, the specific tools, we ask in the application and get into during the interview.

What we offer

A high-performing team of developers, engineers, data scientists, architects, and strategists solving complex, real-world problems, with work that runs from strategy formulation to hands-on implementation. We develop people across roles and clients, with extensive onboarding and sponsored training and professional development. And Peregrine has been a Benefit Corporation from day one: public value is built into the work itself, not bolted on afterward. Work worth your best years.

What we commit to

As a Benefit Corporation, our commitment runs three ways: real, measurable value for our clients; government that works better for the public; and a team that makes everyone in it better.

We hire people who want to help build the firm, not just work at it. If that is you, apply.

Peregrine Advisors is an equal opportunity employer.

Peregrine exclusively works with OPEN Data Jobs to recruit our team. Register with OPEN Data Jobs to be considered for this opening and future roles.

Requirements

• 4+ years of database development experience
• Bachelor’s degree
• SQL on Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL-compatible), working with DynamoDB, S3, and Apache Iceberg tables
• Stored procedures, views, and query tuning
• Data loading (S3 into the platform stores) and ODBC/JDBC connectivity
• Basic proficiency in writing, PowerPoint, and Excel

Preferred

• Physical-design ownership of the Aurora and Iceberg stores, or the drive to grow into it
• Apache Ranger-governed access
• Federal information technology or high-volume transaction experience
• Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tooling

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision with the employee premium fully paid and half of dependent premiums; employer-paid life, accidental death, and short-term and long-term disability insurance; a 401(k) matched 100% up to 4% of salary, vesting immediately; unlimited paid time off; and sponsored professional certifications and continuing education.