Senior Platform Engineer - Postgres Specialist - Remote

Overview

At Timescale, we empower businesses with real-time insights from their data, allowing them to make faster decisions and optimize operations. We are creating a movement to unblock developers who are building the future. Timescale is a product-led growth organization driven by transparent leaders and a globally diverse, remote-first team that is proudly building a modern PostgreSQL cloud platform.

In Short

• Ensuring operational excellence, performance, and observability for our fleet of Postgres/Timescale instances
• Diving deep into complex performance issues faced by our Cloud customers
• Designing and implementing database related Cloud features
• Instrumenting excellent database observability from the application to the kernel level
• Strong industry experience operating Postgres databases at scale
• Established history of incident management in the context of database operations
• Good software engineering and distributed systems fundamentals
• Experience with high-availability Postgres setups using Patroni
• Intimate knowledge of the Postgres ecosystem
• Deep experience with analyzing database performance and tuning Postgres parameters

Requirements

• Strong industry experience operating Postgres databases at scale
• Established history of incident management in the context of database operations
• Good software engineering and distributed systems fundamentals
• Experience working with and debugging high-availability Postgres setups using Patroni or other industry standard HA tooling
• Intimate knowledge of the Postgres ecosystem, including extensions and operational tools
• Deep experience with analyzing database performance, tuning Postgres parameters, and optimizing Postgres workloads
• Nice to have: experience running Postgres workloads on Kubernetes
• Nice to have: experience writing applications that heavily interact with Postgres and/or Kubernetes

Benefits

• Flexible PTO and family leave
• Fridays off in August
• Full remote work from almost anywhere
• Stock options
• Monthly WiFi stipend
• Professional development and educational benefits
• Premium insurance options for you and your family (US employees)