Senior Platform Engineer - Postgres Specialist
United StatesDevOps / SRERemote
Summary
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.
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
PostgreSQLKubernetesGolangLinuxApateAWSDockerPythonTimescaleobservability