Full-Time Senior Platform Engineer - Postgres Specialist

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.

We're looking for experienced engineers to help us build our Cloud-first database experience and ensure operational excellence for our fleet of Timescale instances.

You will work with a close-knit team, handling performance and operational issues on our Platform as well as designing and developing features that elevate our Cloud database experience.

This is a remote and a full-time position.

What you will be responsible for:

• 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, working across many layers of the stack to ensure a seamless cloud-first database experience
• Instrumenting excellent database observability from the application to the kernel level

You’d be a great fit if you have:

• 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 (e.g., pg_stat_statements, postgres_fdw, plpython) and operational tools (e.g., pgbouncer, pgbackrest, pganalyze)
• 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

You might not be a great fit if:

• You aren't comfortable with a fast-paced, dynamic environment where priorities can shift quickly
• You prefer a highly structured role with clearly defined tasks and responsibilities
• You're not a self-starter who thrives on taking initiative and ownership

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