Senior Platform Engineer, Timescale
Postgres Specialist
+ Stock options
Scalable SQL for time-series data
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Scalable SQL for time-series data
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ 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
- Strong industry experience operating Postgres databases at scale
- Established history of incident management in the context of database operations
- Good software engineering and distributed systems fundamentals
- Experience working with and debugging high-availability Postgres setups using Patroni or other industry standard HA tooling
- Intimate knowledge of the Postgres ecosystem, including extensions (e.g., pg_stat_statements, postgres_fdw, plpython) and operational tools (e.g., pgbouncer, pgbackrest, pganalyze)
- Deep experience with analyzing database performance, tuning Postgres parameters, and optimizing Postgres workloads
- Nice to have: experience running Postgres workloads on Kubernetes
- Nice to have: experience writing applications that heavily interact with Postgres and/or Kubernetes
Desirable
- 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 our Cloud-first database experience and ensure operational excellence for our fleet of Timescale instances
- You will work with a close-knit team, handling performance and operational issues on our Platform as well as designing and developing features that elevate our Cloud database experience
- Ensuring operational excellence, performance, and observability for our fleet of Postgres/Timescale instances
- Diving deep into complex performance issues faced by our Cloud customers
- Designing and implementing database related Cloud features, working across many layers of the stack to ensure a seamless cloud-first database experience
- Instrumenting excellent database observability from the application to the kernel level
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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Insights
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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