Senior C/PostgreSQL Engineer — Remote, Distributed DB

Lever, Inc.; France; À distance; EUR 90 000 - 135 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

100% remote work (EMEA)

Open-source participation

Wellness Fridays

Global team collaboration

Health resources

Remote-first culture

Résumé du poste

Lever, Inc. is seeking a skilled Software Engineer/C Developer – PGD based in France to join a fully remote EMEA team working on a high-availability distributed PostgreSQL solution.

You will help design, implement, test, and document multi-master database capabilities, focusing on replication, consistency, and scalability. You will collaborate with an internationally distributed engineering team, review code, optimize performance, and contribute to build, test, and deployment processes while

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong C programming skills for production-quality systems.
• Practical experience with PostgreSQL internals, such as the storage engine, WAL, replication, catalog system, or extension development.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including replication topologies, consensus, conflict resolution, eventual consistency, and failure modes.
• Experience with large, long-lived codebases that use multiple branches, versions, and backporting workflows.
• Familiarity with modern build systems and CI/CD practices.
• Strong Git skills and experience working with complex branching strategies.
• Excellent debugging, troubleshooting, and performance analysis capabilities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate complex database and distributed-system behavior.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate with a globally distributed engineering team.

Responsabilités

• Design, develop, test, and document new capabilities for a multi-master distributed PostgreSQL product.
• Contribute to architecture and technical design decisions for distributed database functionality.
• Maintain, enhance, and optimize existing capabilities to improve performance, reliability, usability, and scalability.
• Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into clearly defined, executable engineering tasks.
• Investigate complex software and database issues and provide high-quality production support to enterprise customers.
• Diagnose performance and reliability problems using systematic debugging and analysis techniques.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain strong engineering standards.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders across a globally distributed development organization.
• Work effectively with multi-version and multi-branch codebases, including active backporting and release workflows.
• Contribute to build, testing, CI/CD, and software delivery processes.
• Help maintain high standards for technical documentation, testing, maintainability, and production readiness.

Connaissances

C programming

PostgreSQL internals

Distributed systems

Debugging

Performance analysis

Git

Python

Rust

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Ansible

Outils

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Ansible

Description du poste

Lever, Inc. is seeking a skilled Software Engineer/C Developer – PGD based in France to join a fully remote EMEA team working on a high-availability distributed PostgreSQL solution.

You will help design, implement, test, and document multi-master database capabilities, focusing on replication, consistency, and scalability. You will collaborate with an internationally distributed engineering team, review code, optimize performance, and contribute to build, test, and deployment processes while