Senior Platform Engineer - Go & Kubernetes (Remote)

Tiger Data; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Fridays off

Fully remote opportunities

Stock options

WiFi stipend

Professional development

Premium insurance (US-based)

Job summary

Tiger Data, formerly Timescale, is seeking experienced engineers to build and maintain the cloud platform powering TimescaleDB-based services. You’ll work on a Kubernetes-driven infrastructure, develop back-end features, and implement CRDs and controllers to extend platform capabilities.

Join a remote-first, fully distributed team with focus on reliability, observability, and performance, using Go, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, and gRPC. We value scalable design and high-quality code.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software/platform engineering experience.
• 2+ years of Go in production environments.
• 2+ years of Kubernetes operations.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservice architectures.

Responsibilities

• Maintain stability of control plane consisting of distributed microservice architecture closely interacting with Kubernetes and cloud provider APIs.
• Debug and resolve complex Kubernetes issues across multiple regions and clouds.
• Automate database lifecycle operations (deploy, resize, upgrade, fork).
• Develop back-end features for Tiger Cloud, specializing in a distributed microservice architecture with an emphasis on platform and database expertise.
• Enhance observability and monitoring systems.
• Improve deployment reliability, error handling, and client tooling (CLI interfaces).

Skills

Go (Golang)

Kubernetes operations

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB

gRPC & Protobufs

CI/CD

Linux & Bash

Observability/Monitoring

Education

3+ years software/platform engineering

Tools

Kubernetes client-go

CRDs & controllers

Helm

Terraform

Pulumi

OpenTelemetry/Jaeger

kOps

Job description

Tiger Data, formerly Timescale, is seeking experienced engineers to build and maintain the cloud platform powering TimescaleDB-based services. You’ll work on a Kubernetes-driven infrastructure, develop back-end features, and implement CRDs and controllers to extend platform capabilities.

Join a remote-first, fully distributed team with focus on reliability, observability, and performance, using Go, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, and gRPC. We value scalable design and high-quality code.