Senior Software Engineer PostgreSQL - Remote

Overview

We are looking for a flexible and efficient Senior Software Engineer to join its Open Source Software Development team. You will work on the PostgreSQL open-source database and related components, doing both new feature development and bug fixing in close collaboration with the upstream PostgreSQL Community.

In Short

• Design, code, implement and document improvements to PostgreSQL and related components.
• Create and submit patches for review, perform periodic source code merges from other open source repositories.
• Perform root cause analysis of customer-impacting defects to provide the optimal solution.
• Develop test cases for continuous integration deployment.
• Participate in code and design reviews.
• Diagnose and fix defects in PostgreSQL and related components.
• Create documentation about your work that is consumable and can be refined by our documentation team.
• Be part of the PostgreSQL developer community.
• Share your knowledge by attending and speaking at related conferences and writing blog posts about your work, participating in our public forums.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of hands-on development experience and related tools / build processes (e.g. gcc/autoconf/automake).
• Hands-on knowledge of PostgreSQL internals.
• Distributed system development and/or database server development.
• Fluent in developer tools like git, gcc, gdb.
• Scripting languages like Perl and Shell scripting.
• Working autonomously in a globally distributed organization.
• Collaborating with open source communities and colleagues via mailing lists, IRC, Slack, etc.
• Using collaboration/tracking tools like Jira/Notion.
• Ability to speak, listen and write effectively in fluent English.
• Quick learner & great team player.

Benefits

• Being an active member of the PostgreSQL developer community.
• Having a track record of contributing to PostgreSQL or other open source projects.
• Proven success working in a distributed environment.
• Experienced conference speaker, technical blog writer, activity on public forums or mailing lists.