Senior Postgres Platform Engineer – Scale, Self-Healing Ops

Dell Technologies Inc.; Round Rock (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Dell Technologies in Round Rock, TX is seeking a Postgres Database Engineer to architect Dell's global PostgreSQL platform strategy and build autonomous tooling for self-healing database operations across thousands of instances. You will collaborate with global database engineering pods to define deployment standards using Kubernetes and operators.

The role emphasizes mentoring engineers, contributing to vendor negotiations, and delivering resilient, scalable Postgres services.

Qualifications

• 10–14 years IT infrastructure or platform engineering experience, or 7+ years with exceptional depth demonstrated through production scale, open-source contributions, or published work.
• 6+ years of production PostgreSQL at scale - partitioning, logical replication, connection pooling (PgBouncer), 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 Dell'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 at scale

Kubernetes (stateful workloads)

Automation frameworks (Python/Go/Bash)

Infrastructure as Code (Ansible)

Database as a service design

Tools

Kubernetes

Patroni

CloudNativePG

pgBackRest

Job description

Dell Technologies in Round Rock, TX is seeking a Postgres Database Engineer to architect Dell's global PostgreSQL platform strategy and build autonomous tooling for self-healing database operations across thousands of instances. You will collaborate with global database engineering pods to define deployment standards using Kubernetes and operators.

The role emphasizes mentoring engineers, contributing to vendor negotiations, and delivering resilient, scalable Postgres services.