Autonomous Postgres Platform Engineer

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a Senior Postgres Database Engineer to architect and scale its global PostgreSQL platform, leveraging Kubernetes-based deployments and autonomous tooling. You will mentor engineers, shape disaster recovery, and drive high-availability standards across thousands of database instances.

The role emphasizes building infrastructure-as-code, self-healing automation, and collaborating with vendors to define platform 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 - partitioning, logical replication, connection pooling, WAL tuning, Patroni, pgBackRest
• 3+ years of Kubernetes for stateful workloads - operators, persistent storage design, backup/restore in K8s, multi-cluster patterns
• 3+ years building automation frameworks in Python, Go, or Bash - authoring infrastructure, not just using playbooks
• Proven track record of designing and developing Database as a service

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead PostgreSQL platform strategy across Socket.dev's global fleet - HA design, disaster recovery, security hardening, and performance baselines for thousands of instances
• Design and implement Postgres-on-Kubernetes at scale using operators (CloudNativePG/Patroni), storage architecture, multi-region failover, and observability integration
• 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)
• Mentor engineers through weekly architecture reviews and represent Postgres requirements planning and vendor negotiations

Skills

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Bash

Ansible

Database as a Service

LLM-augmented operations

Tools

CloudNativePG

Patroni

pgBackRest

Ansible

Job description

Socket.dev is seeking a Senior Postgres Database Engineer to architect and scale its global PostgreSQL platform, leveraging Kubernetes-based deployments and autonomous tooling. You will mentor engineers, shape disaster recovery, and drive high-availability standards across thousands of database instances.

The role emphasizes building infrastructure-as-code, self-healing automation, and collaborating with vendors to define platform requirements.