Senior Platform Engineer – Postgres Specialist

Postgres
UNITED STATES
October 20, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: Tiger Data
Location: US / EU (Remote)
Workplace Type: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

At Tiger Data, formerly Timescale, we empower developers and businesses with the fastest PostgreSQL platform designed for transactional, analytical, and agentic workloads. Trusted globally by thousands of organizations, Tiger accelerates real-time insights, drives intelligent applications, and powers critical infrastructure at scale. We are looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to help us build our Cloud database experience and ensure operational excellence on our database platform. 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.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Cloud Feature Engineering: Designing and implementing database-related Cloud features, working across many layers of the stack to ensure a seamless Postgres experience.
  • Operational Excellence: Ensuring operational excellence, performance, and observability for our fleet of Postgres/Timescale instances.
  • Performance Troubleshooting: Diving deep into complex performance issues faced by our Cloud customers, optimizing workloads, and ensuring high availability.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Postgres Operations Experience: Extensive experience running and orchestrating dynamic stateful Postgres workloads at scale on Kubernetes.
  • Core Technologies: Deep knowledge of Golang, Linux, and infrastructure tooling.
  • Ecosystem Contributions: Contributions to the Postgres ecosystem – either core Postgres or open source tooling around it.
  • Systems Building: Track record of building internal systems, services, and tools for managing Postgres at scale.
  • Performance Tuning: Deep experience with analyzing database performance, tuning Postgres parameters, and optimizing Postgres workloads.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

  • Enthusiasm for learning our broader tech stack including AWS, Docker, Python, and innovative features like Hypertables, Hypercore, and vector search.

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

  • Flexible PTO and comprehensive family leave.
  • Fridays off in August.
  • Fully remote opportunities globally.
  • Stock options for long-term growth.
  • Monthly WiFi stipend.
  • Professional development and educational resources.
  • Premium insurance options for you and your family (US-based employees).

Ready to join the future of PostgreSQL? We can’t wait to meet you. 🚀🐯

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