Senior Platform Engineer

Job Description

Company: Timescale (Tiger Data)
Location: Remote (US or Canada)
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. As a globally distributed, remote-first team, we’re looking for experienced engineers to help us build, maintain, and scale the infrastructure that powers our managed TimescaleDB cloud services, combining deep platform engineering with robust database administration.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

• Service Maintenance: Maintain stability of the control plane consisting of a distributed microservice architecture closely interacting with Kubernetes and cloud provider APIs, while debugging and resolving complex infrastructure issues across multiple regions and clouds.
• Database Lifecycle Automation: Automate database lifecycle operations including deployment, resizing, upgrades, and forking, while participating in on-call rotations, handling incident response, and performing root cause analysis.
• Feature Development: Develop back-end features for Tiger Cloud, building Kubernetes controllers, operators, and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to extend platform capabilities and enhance observability and monitoring systems.
• Collaboration & Architecture: Work closely with infrastructure and software engineering teams to ensure platform scalability, reliability, and security compliance, while contributing to system architecture for scalable microservices.
• Code Quality & Testing: Write idiomatic Go code with comprehensive unit and integration tests, maintaining >80% code coverage, enforcing quality with linters, and performing rigorous peer reviews.

Requirements & Qualifications

• 3+ years of software or platform engineering experience.
• 2+ years of Go experience in production environments, with advanced proficiency in modern Go.
• 2+ years of Kubernetes operations experience building, debugging, and scaling clusters, including familiarity with client-go, CRDs, and controllers.
• Proven PostgreSQL / TimescaleDB administration experience in production, including backup/restore procedures, disaster recovery strategies, WAL management, streaming/logical replication, and query optimization.
• Strong background in distributed systems and microservice architectures.
• Deep knowledge of Linux operating systems, container environments, and Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Helm, Prometheus).

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

• Experience specifically with TimescaleDB or PostgreSQL in high-scale production environments.
• Cloud provider expertise across AWS or Azure.
• Experience with self-hosted Kubernetes clusters beyond managed offerings like EKS, AKS, or GKE.
• Familiarity with CNI/CSI plugins and tuning Kubernetes core components.
• Previous work on database-as-a-service (DBaaS) or large-scale distributed systems.

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

• Flexible PTO and comprehensive family leave.
• Fridays off in August.
• Fully remote work environment.
• Stock options for long-term growth.
• Monthly WiFi stipend and professional development resources.
• Premium insurance options for US-based employees.