Infrastructure Engineer: Data & Permissions (Cambridge)

Tome; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

PTO

Health insurance

Holidays

Family leave

Work from home Wednesdays

401k

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Tome in Cambridge is seeking a systems-focused engineer to own database-backed workloads across scheduling, permissions, and distributed systems. You’ll work on a schema-flexible data model using Postgres, design performant data-access patterns, and help keep customer data fast and consistent.

This role emphasizes hypothesis-driven development, instrumentation, production debugging, and close code review. You’ll collaborate with senior infra engineers in Cambridge and contribute to end-to-end

Responsibilities

• Design and review distributed systems and data models.
• Debug production behavior and instrument systems.
• Own subsystems end-to-end and ship production work early.
• Collaborate with site leads and infrastructure engineers in Cambridge.

Skills

Distributed systems

Data modeling

Query optimization

Instrumentation

Code review

Incident response

Tools

PostgreSQL

SQL

Job description

Tome in Cambridge is seeking a systems-focused engineer to own database-backed workloads across scheduling, permissions, and distributed systems. You’ll work on a schema-flexible data model using Postgres, design performant data-access patterns, and help keep customer data fast and consistent.

This role emphasizes hypothesis-driven development, instrumentation, production debugging, and close code review. You’ll collaborate with senior infra engineers in Cambridge and contribute to end-to-end