Senior PostgreSQL Infra Engineer — Kubernetes on AWS (Remote)

Laravel LLC.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care plan

Paid time off

Family leave

Pension plans

Performance based bonus plan

Company equity

Fully remote and globally distributed

Job summary

Laravel is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own the PostgreSQL offering within our Laravel Cloud platform. You will deploy and optimize PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes, build Go operators, and drive reliability and automation across AWS-based infrastructure.

You will help shape best practices for database operations, mentor engineers, and collaborate with a distributed team to deliver scalable, secure, and observable cloud services.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
• Deep expertise with PostgreSQL in production: performance, replication, backups, high availability.
• Mastery of AWS (or GCP) and designing, deploying, operating production cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production cluster operations and stateful workloads.
• Strong proficiency in Go, building and maintaining Kubernetes operators.
• Strong Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with Terraform and IaC, enforcing scale and policy checks.
• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps workflows (Argo CD or Flux).
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with PostgreSQL on Kubernetes using operators like CloudNativePG or Crunchy Postgres.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, manage, and optimize PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes, owning high availability, performance, backups, and disaster recovery.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance Kubernetes operators and controllers in Go to automate database and platform operations.
• Design, build, and operate highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS across accounts and regions.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, and automate operational workflows.
• Improve reliability, scalability, and security through monitoring, observability, and capacity planning.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer experience, CI/CD pipelines, and platform automation.
• Define and promote best practices for database operations and mentor engineers.

Job description

Laravel is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own the PostgreSQL offering within our Laravel Cloud platform. You will deploy and optimize PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes, build Go operators, and drive reliability and automation across AWS-based infrastructure.

You will help shape best practices for database operations, mentor engineers, and collaborate with a distributed team to deliver scalable, secure, and observable cloud services.