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TigerdataTigerdataUnited States

Senior Platform Engineer - Postgres Specialist

Designs and implements cloud database features for Postgres platform, ensures operational excellence, performance, and observability for large-scale Postgres/Timescale instances on Kubernetes. Requires deep Postgres expertise, Golang, and experience managing stateful workloads at scale.

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RemoteDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Designing and implementing database-related Cloud features, working across many layers of the stack to ensure a seamless Postgres experience
  • Ensuring operational excellence, performance, and observability for our fleet of Postgres/Timescale instances
  • Diving deep into complex performance issues faced by our Cloud customers

Requirements

  • Extensive experience running and orchestrating dynamic stateful Postgres workloads at scale on Kubernetes
  • Deep knowledge of Golang, Linux, and Apate
  • Contributions to the Postgres ecosystem – either core Postgres or open source tooling around it
  • Track record of building internal systems, services, and tools for managing Postgres at scale
  • Deep experience with analyzing database performance, tuning Postgres parameters, and optimizing Postgres workloads

Tech Stack

PostgreSQL, Tiger Cloud, AWS, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, Hypertables, Hypercore, vector search, real-time analytics

Skills

PostgresKubernetesGoLinuxApateAWSDockerPythonTimescaleObservability

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