Systems Engineer – Database Platform

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

• 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
• 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

Requirements

• Experience with building, scaling, and managing large-scale multi-tenant PostgreSQL database clusters, including high availability failover and disaster recovery strategies
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Ansible, or Salt
• Experience with Python and Bash scripting for automation
• Experience building and maintaining database tooling for automation and monitoring
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience optimizing database performance and query tuning
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana
• Work location in Austin, New York, or San Francisco
• Offer may be conditioned on authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in building, deploying, and managing PostgreSQL database clusters, with a strong focus on automation, performance optimization, and high availability solutions. Proficient in utilizing infrastructure-as-code tools and observability platforms to enhance database reliability and health monitoring.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• PostgreSQL Database Management
• Infrastructure-As-Code (Terraform, Ansible, Salt)
• Python and Bash Scripting
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Database Performance Optimization

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• PostgreSQL
• Database Automation
• Performance Tuning
• High Availability Solutions
• Disaster Recovery Strategies
• Query Tuning
• Database Tooling
• Infrastructure Management
• Monitoring Tools
• Scaling Database Infrastructure

Industry Keywords

• Multi-Tenant Database Clusters
• Observability Tools
• Production Environments
• Database Reliability

Tools & Technologies

• Terraform
• Ansible
• Salt
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Kibana