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. 

Our Commitment:

• We will respond to all applicants

• We strive to review all applications fairly, without bias, and shortlist based on relevant skills and experience.

• All active candidates will be informed of what is happening next in the process.
  

About Timescale🐯

Timescale is the creator of TimescaleDB and PGVectorscale, trusted by tens of thousands of organizations for their mission-critical time-series applications. We're committed to empowering developers and businesses worldwide, helping them build data-driven products that measure everything that matters—from software applications and industrial equipment to financial markets, blockchain activity, consumer behavior, machine learning models, and climate change.

By analyzing data across time (“time-series data”), developers gain insights into what’s happening, how it’s changing, and why. With a global, fully remote workforce, Timescale is supported by top investors, including Tiger Global, Benchmark Capital, NEA, Redpoint Ventures, Icon Ventures, and Two Sigma Ventures.

Enjoy debating the crunch-factor of different chicken nuggets 🍗, sweating it out during lunch 💦, talking about your kids, whether they be actual children 👶🏽, potted plants 🌱, or four-legged creatures 🐾? You’ll fit right in at Timescale!

Our Tech stack: 

We share our tech stack with the caveat that we don’t require previous experience in it (but a love of these languages is helpful): Timescale's tech stack includes TimescaleDB, built on PostgreSQL, along with AWS, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, and Python for scalable time-series data management.

To learn more, visit www.timescale.com or follow us on Twitter @TimescaleDB.

What we’re offering

Benefits may differ from country to country.

• 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)