PostgreSQL Platform Engineer — Scale, HA & Automation

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Infra Engineer to design, deploy, and scale multi-tenant PostgreSQL clusters in production. You will build tooling for automation, monitoring, and performance tuning, while driving high availability, backups, and disaster recovery.

Collaborate with Infrastructure and Applications teams to integrate database tools, implement proactive observability, and optimize indexing and queries for reliability and scalability.

Qualifications

• Experience building, scaling, and managing large PostgreSQL clusters with HA and DR
• Infra-as-code: Terraform, Ansible, or Salt
• Scripting: Python and Bash for automation
• Experience building database tooling for automation and monitoring
• Docker and Kubernetes experience
• Performance tuning and query optimization
• Observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and manage PostgreSQL database clusters in production environments
• Develop and maintain tooling for automation, monitoring, and performance tuning
• Implement high availability, backup, and disaster recovery solutions
• Collaborate 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
• Scale PostgreSQL infrastructure and enhance database reliability

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior PostgreSQL Infra Engineer to design, deploy, and scale multi-tenant PostgreSQL clusters in production. You will build tooling for automation, monitoring, and performance tuning, while driving high availability, backups, and disaster recovery.

Collaborate with Infrastructure and Applications teams to integrate database tools, implement proactive observability, and optimize indexing and queries for reliability and scalability.