Senior PostgreSQL & Vector Data Platform Engineer

Kraken; Ireland; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken in Ireland is looking for a skilled PostgreSQL Operations Engineer to join a senior team focused on enhancing PostgreSQL clusters and vector data capabilities. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in managing PostgreSQL in high-volume environments, ensuring performance, reliability, and security.

This position offers the chance to work on high-impact projects that support Kraken's global expansion and innovation in AI-enabled services. Strong collaboration skills and a passion for automation are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years operating PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and incident troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with high availability, streaming replication, and disaster-recovery drills.
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, and building container images.

Responsibilities

• Scale and tune high-throughput PostgreSQL clusters for global expansion.
• Define production patterns for embeddings and vector data capabilities.
• Reduce manual operational work through automation and improved processes.

Skills

Operating PostgreSQL in high-volume production environments

PostgreSQL internals and operations

High availability and read scaling

Connection pooling and traffic management for PostgreSQL

Practical VectorDB or vector search experience

CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code workflows

Solid cloud, Linux, storage, and networking fundamentals

Containers and orchestration platforms

Security instincts around access control

Observability expertise

Tools

PgBouncer

HAProxy

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Kraken in Ireland is looking for a skilled PostgreSQL Operations Engineer to join a senior team focused on enhancing PostgreSQL clusters and vector data capabilities. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in managing PostgreSQL in high-volume environments, ensuring performance, reliability, and security.

This position offers the chance to work on high-impact projects that support Kraken's global expansion and innovation in AI-enabled services. Strong collaboration skills and a passion for automation are required.