Postgres Database Engineer

Postgres
UNITED STATES
October 27, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: Dell Technologies
Location: Round Rock, Texas
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation software application enhancements and new products. As a Postgres Database Engineer, you will architect Dell’s global PostgreSQL platform strategy and build autonomous tooling for self-healing database operations across thousands of instances.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Architect and lead PostgreSQL platform strategy across Dell’s global fleet, covering HA design, disaster recovery, and security hardening.
  • Design and implement Postgres-on-Kubernetes at scale using operators (CloudNativePG/Patroni) and multi-region failover.
  • Build agentic/autonomous tooling for self-healing failover, automated VACUUM/analyze scheduling, and predictive capacity alerts using LLM-augmented logic.
  • Author Infrastructure-as-Code modules (Ansible) and mentor engineers through weekly architecture reviews.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • 10-14 years of IT infrastructure or platform engineering experience, or 7+ years with exceptional depth demonstrated through production scale or open-source contributions.
  • 6+ years of production PostgreSQL at scale, including partitioning, logical replication, connection pooling (PgBouncer), WAL tuning, Patroni, and pgBackRest.
  • 3+ years of Kubernetes for stateful workloads, including operators, persistent storage design, and multi-cluster patterns.
  • 3+ years building automation frameworks in Python, Go, or Bash, focusing on authoring infrastructure.
  • Proven track record of designing and developing Database as a service.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

  • pgVector production experience with high-dimension embedding workloads (RAG, semantic search).
  • Experience with Agentic coding or LLM-augmented operations for autonomous remediation.
  • Contributions to PostgreSQL ecosystem open-source projects (patches, extensions, operators, or tooling).

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