Staff Backend Engineer, Database Automation

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Go-based automation for the full PostgreSQL lifecycle, including provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning.
• Build automation across infrastructure-as-code tooling and cloud infrastructure; evaluate operator-based approaches.
• Use AI agents in implementation, review, and operational workflows while maintaining repository context for team use.
• Design automation and services for high-throughput, always-on production workloads.
• Integrate compute, storage, networking, identity and access management, and managed data services across cloud providers into a cohesive PostgreSQL platform.
• Build a PostgreSQL-as-a-service platform with standardized provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Research and implement improvements to PostgreSQL performance, scalability, and data health.
• Review database automation and Go changes for safety, maintainability, and performance.
• Document automation practices, PostgreSQL operational patterns, and platform guidance.
• Build safe, repeatable PostgreSQL major-version upgrade automation, validating changes against production traffic.
• Operate services in production end to end and use production feedback to guide improvements.
• Collaborate with product management, infrastructure, software delivery, and engineering teams.
• Provide technical direction for major initiatives, influence engineering patterns, and mentor engineers through design reviews.

Requirements

• Professional software engineering experience with PostgreSQL in large, complex production environments.
• Experience building or operating a database-as-a-service product.
• Proficiency with Go, including designing, implementing, testing, and reviewing backend services.
• Experience developing Kubernetes operators, controllers, or comparable lifecycle automation for stateful services, especially databases.
• Comfort with infrastructure as code and database operations concepts including high availability, replication, backups, and system-level performance trade-offs.
• Strong written communication skills and ability to work asynchronously in a distributed team.
• Self-directed work style and effective organizational skills.
• Experience owning technical direction for a major initiative and turning ambiguous problems into executable architecture and plans.
• Ability to influence beyond the immediate team and mentor engineers.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

Compensation

• United States base salary: $152,800–$259,200 USD.
• Benefits include flexible paid time off, employee resource groups, equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan, growth and development funding, and parental leave.