Senior Platform Engineer – Postgres Specialist

Job Description

Company: Tiger Data (Timescale)
Location: United States (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. As a globally distributed, remote-first team committed to direct communication, accountability, and collaborative excellence, we’re shaping the future of data infrastructure, built for speed, flexibility, and simplicity. We’re looking for experienced engineers to help us build our Cloud database experience and ensure operational excellence on our database platform.

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 and optimizing database workloads.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Stateful Workloads: Extensive experience running and orchestrating dynamic stateful Postgres workloads at scale on Kubernetes.
• Core Languages & Systems: Deep knowledge of Golang, Linux, and systems engineering.
• Ecosystem Contributions: Contributions to the Postgres ecosystem – either core Postgres or open source tooling around it.
• Internal Systems: 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 and working with technologies such as Tiger Cloud, AWS, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, and vector search capabilities.

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? Apply via LinkedIn or directly through Tiger Data’s careers portal.