Staff Software Engineer, PostgreSQL

Postgres
UNITED STATES
October 20, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: Beacon Biosignals
Location: Boston, MA (or Remote)
Workplace Type: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time
Pay / Compensation: $170,000 – $190,000 + Equity & Benefits

About the Role

Beacon Biosignals is transforming precision medicine for the brain, offering the leading at-home EEG platform for clinical development and diagnostics. The Datastore team is seeking a Software Engineer IV to help design and scale backend systems for data infrastructure, specifically focusing on PostgreSQL data models, event pipelines, and APIs that make clinical data usable for scientists, clinicians, and partners.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Lead System Design: Drive design and architecture for complex projects and systems within the Datastore, weighing implementation trade-offs with engineering principles and data-backed decisions.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product managers, scientific, and clinical stakeholders to translate requirements into integrations, services, and solutions for scaling the data platform.
  • System Debugging & Profiling: Debug and profile ambiguous problems crossing system boundaries, improving structure, test coverage, and tooling.
  • Technical Documentation: Draft RFCs to lead complex feature discovery and technical design phases, helping the team align on development decisions.
  • Mentorship & Leadership: Teach and mentor other engineers regularly, giving actionable feedback and potentially acting as a tech lead on projects.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • 7+ years of backend development experience, including at least 3 years focused on data platforms and backend infrastructure for data-centric applications.
  • Strong SQL proficiency with production experience working with PostgreSQL as an application database, fluently writing and tuning queries, and reasoning about schema design, indexes, and query plans.
  • Experience with data streaming and event processing using Kafka or equivalent technologies (RabbitMQ, Pulsar, Amazon Kinesis).
  • Proficiency in Julia or Python (experience with Julia is a strong plus).
  • Experience deploying and operating services in containerized environments with familiarity in Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and/or Helm.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in asynchronous and remote-friendly environments.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications

  • Experience with GraphQL and TypeScript/JavaScript (Node.js).
  • Deep expertise in PostgreSQL query planners, index selection, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE), zero-downtime migrations, and replication/vacuum behavior.
  • Experience with LLM-assisted or agentic coding tools in a production setting.

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive salary range of $170,000 – $190,000
  • Equity package
  • Paid Time Off (PTO) and comprehensive benefits
  • Robust asynchronous work culture with optional in-person office hubs in Boston, New York City, and Paris

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