Senior Platform Engineer, Tiger Data

• 3+ years of software/platform engineering experience
• 2+ years of Go in production environments
• 2+ years of Kubernetes operations (building, debugging, scaling clusters)
• Experience in distributed systems and microservice architectures
• Experience with our core technologies:
• Go (Golang): Advanced proficiency (Go 1.24+), primary development language
• Kubernetes: Experienced Kubernetes user familiar with client-go and capable of developing CRDs and controllers
• PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB: Administration, migration, replication, performance tuning
• GRPC & Protobufs: Experience developing services and defining schemas
• Experience with ECPG and Rust: experience developing low latency applications memory-efficient applications in Rust is a plus
• Infrastructure & DevOps Experience:
• Helm Charts: Template management and deployment automation
• Kubernetes Operators: Operator patterns and controller-runtime
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, automated testing, deployment pipelines
• Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry/Jaeger, distributed tracing
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Pulumi, Apate or similar
• Linux & Bash: Deep knowledge of operating systems and container environments
• Kubernetes lifecycle: kOps
• Database Experience:
• A user of PostgreSQL, capable of interacting with various libraries and not dependent on ORMs (required)
• PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB administration in production
• Backup/restore procedures and disaster recovery strategies
• WAL management and replication (streaming/logical)
• Query optimization, tuning, and parameter adjustments

Desirable

• 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. If you enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges and automating workflows, this role is perfect for you
• Maintain stability of control plane consisting of a 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)
• Participate in on-call rotation, handle incident response, perform root cause analysis
• Develop back-end features for Tiger Cloud, specializing in a distributed microservice architecture with an emphasis on platform and database expertise
• Develop Kubernetes controllers, operators, and CRDs to extend platform capabilities
• Enhance observability and monitoring systems
• Improve deployment reliability, error handling, and client tooling (CLI interfaces)
• Work closely with infrastructure and software engineering teams to ensure platform scalability and reliability
• Stay current with Kubernetes releases, features, CNI/CSI interfaces, and cluster orchestration tools
• Contribute to system architecture for scalable microservices and distributed systems
• Write idiomatic Go code with comprehensive unit and integration tests
• Maintain >80% code coverage and enforce quality with golangci-lint
• Perform peer reviews and follow Go/Kubernetes best practices
• Ensure security compliance and vulnerability management