PostgreSQL Platform Engineer — Automation, Reliability & Equity

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is hiring a Systems Engineer to scale and operate a large PostgreSQL platform across multiple regions. You will build, automate, and maintain production-grade database tooling, ensure high availability, and collaborate with infrastructure and applications teams to improve reliability.

The role emphasizes observability, performance tuning, and disaster recovery, with compensation that varies by location and an equity program for eligible employees.

Qualifications

• Experience with building, scaling, and managing large-scale multi-tenant PostgreSQL clusters with HA and DR.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible or Salt).
• Experience in scripting languages (Python, Bash) for automation.
• Experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL database clusters in production environments.
• Develop and maintain database tooling for automation, monitoring and performance tuning.
• Implement high availability, backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Work closely with Infrastructure and Applications teams to integrate database tools.
• Implement proactive solutions using observability tools to monitor database health.
• Optimize database performance, indexing strategies, and query tuning.

Skills

PostgreSQL clustering

Terraform

Ansible

Salt

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Kibana

Go

PostgreSQL contributions

Flyway/Liquibase/goose

PgBouncer

Redis/Timescale/Cassandra

Tools

Go

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is hiring a Systems Engineer to scale and operate a large PostgreSQL platform across multiple regions. You will build, automate, and maintain production-grade database tooling, ensure high availability, and collaborate with infrastructure and applications teams to improve reliability.

The role emphasizes observability, performance tuning, and disaster recovery, with compensation that varies by location and an equity program for eligible employees.