Senior Software Engineer, Timescale
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Scalable SQL for time-series data
Job no longer available
Scalable SQL for time-series data
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
+Stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to analyze the past, monitor the present and predict the future.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in platform engineering
- Experience programming in the Kubernetes ecosystem or using the Kubernetes API (operators, controllers, and custom CRDs)
- Strong programming skills (we mostly use Go)
- Extensive experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred)
- Experience designing, understanding, and debugging complex distributed systems
- Deep knowledge of Linux, container environments, bash, and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
- Experience deploying, operating, and using major production-level databases. Bonus points for PostgreSQL and/or TimescaleDB!
- Experience deploying and maintaining Kubernetes clusters at scale. Knowledge of Kubernetes cluster orchestration tools like kops or kubeadm is a plus
- Experience with CNI and CSI interfaces. Have an understanding of their purpose and solid experience with at least one CNI and CSI plugin - deploying, tuning, troubleshooting
- A good understanding of feature sets of different Kubernetes versions, be well informed about new features
- Understand different solutions for monitoring kubernetes health and troubleshooting, improving control plane and worker node performance
- Have experience tuning kubernetes components such as API server, kubelet, scheduler, kube-proxy, controller manager, for improving performance, security hardening and improvement of reliability
- Experience of managing self hosted kubernetes clusters (not only EKS, AKS or GKE) is a plus
- You might not be a great fit if:
- You aren't comfortable with a fast-paced, dynamic environment where priorities can shift quickly
- You prefer a highly structured role with clearly defined tasks and responsibilities
- You're not a self-starter who thrives on taking initiative and ownership
What the job involves
- We're looking for experienced engineers to help us build and maintain the platform for our managed TimescaleDB cloud services
- You will work with a close-knit team, building and maintaining the infrastructure that powers our platform
- Your work will be instrumental in developing our Kubernetes-based clusters and infrastructure
- This role is perfect if you enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges and automating workflows
- You will interact with the Kubernetes API and codebase to build controllers, operators, and applications that power our platform
- Work closely with and further develop our infrastructure tooling to ensure the health, stability, and maintainability of our clusters
- Get a lot of hands-on experience debugging and optimizing TimescaleDB and Postgres workloads
- Collaborate with software engineering teams to ensure platform scalability and performance
- Stay up to date with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies related to Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure
Our take
Timescale helps developers and businesses manage and analyze big data sets that power large-scale operations. It offers this through TimescaleDB, its own open-source time-series SQL database which, unlike many competitors, is built with PostgreSQL. The product’s broad client applications include finance, logistics, and space.
Timescale landed $110 million in Series C investment in 2022, and became a unicorn at a valuation of over $1 billion. This signifies Timescale’s thriving business on top of the explosive rise of time-series data - the fastest growing database market segment - and promises a strong tailwind for the business.
The company serves over 500 customers and tens of thousands of other organizations use TimescaleDB in the community, including companies like IBM, Microsoft, Pfizer, and Samsung, among others.
Timescale is now focused on further growth by increasing investments in product, engineering, and R&D, and broadening its efforts in serving the Timescale community, customers, and developers. It is also hiring across multiple teams to continue scaling the company.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2022
$110m
SERIES C
May 2021
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $184.8m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO & family leave
- Professional development & educational benefits
- Summer Fridays off in August
- Fully remote work from anywhere
- Stock options
- Monthly WiFi stipend
- FSA/Dependent FSA plans
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Premium insurance options for you and your family
Company values
- Be builders with integrity, mutual respect, and compassion
- Let the best idea win, no matter who says it
- Assume positive intent
- Be inclusive - communicate fearlessly
- Think like owners, not renters
- Be amazing but humble
- Be students in both work and life. Seek ways for self-improvement
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
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Leadership
Ajay Kulkarni
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previous CEO and Co-Founder of computer software company Sensobi, and worked in product at GroupMe/Skyprosoft.
Michael Freedman
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previous Research Assistant at multiple universities, including Berkeley and Stanford University. Co-founded Illuminics Systems, which was later acquired by Neustar. Current Advisor to Blockstack and Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Timescale
- We have people from all over the world with diverse backgrounds contributing to our fun-loving culture.
- We believe when people are included and feel appreciated, it creates a culture where people can do meaningful and impactful work.
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