Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer, OpenTable
CA$115-125k
This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus and equity grant
Online restaurant reservation service
Be an early applicant
Online restaurant reservation service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$115-125k
This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus and equity grant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring together people and the restaurants they love in the moments that matter.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience administering, engineering, and operating PostgreSQL or equivalent complex database systems in production environments
- Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL architecture and internals, including query planning, locking, write-ahead logging, replication, vacuuming, and connection management
- Proven experience designing, implementing, and operating high-availability, disaster-recovery, and failover solutions for critical database infrastructure
- Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming or automation language such as Python, Go, or Bash
- Hands-on experience building database automation using infrastructure-as-code or configuration
Desirable
- Experience operating PostgreSQL in public cloud platforms, Kubernetes, or containerized environments
- Experience with telemetry and observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry
- Familiarity with supplementary data platforms such as Redis, MongoDB, OpenSearch, or distributed databases
- Experience improving developer productivity through self-service database provisioning and platform automation
What the job involves
- As a Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for the reliability, performance, scalability, security, and evolution of OpenTable’s PostgreSQL platform
- You will own complex database initiatives end-to-end, partner with cross-functional engineering teams to build an automated and cloud-native data platform, and serve as a senior escalation point for production systems
- In this hybrid role based in Toronto, you will establish modern database practices and ensure database infrastructure supports business growth while maintaining high availability
- Your work will directly empower engineering teams and ensure a seamless, reliable experience for millions of diners and restaurants worldwide
- Lead the design, architecture, and lifecycle management of PostgreSQL environments to ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and scalable performance
- Automate provisioning, major-version upgrades, monitoring, and credential rotation to reduce manual effort and operational toil across database infrastructure
- Partner with Product and Data Engineering teams to review database designs, optimize schemas, improve query performance, and establish safe migration practices
- Drive cloud database strategy across multi-region environments, balancing performance, security, cost efficiency, and operational excellence
- Serve as a senior technical escalation point during production incidents, conducting root-cause analysis and implementing long-term reliability improvements
- Mentor engineers, establish reusable operational patterns, and raise technical standards through clear documentation and cross-team collaboration
Our take
OpenTable was one of the earliest innovators in the online reservation space, setting up shop in 1998 as a tool to enable restaurants to take bookings online. Rather than charging consumers for the service, OpenTable generates revenue via a monthly subscription and reservation fee from businesses.
Today, the platform is used by tens of thousands of restaurants around the world and seats over 1 billion diners per year. The company was acquired by Booking Holdings – the world's largest travel company – for $2.6 billion in 2014, and remains a subsidiary of the group to this day.
OpenTable is the dominant player in the restaurant reservation software category, with an impressive 45% market share, but does face increasing competition from platforms like Resy, Tock, TableAgent, and many more. Nonetheless, this market leader has garnered an impressive reputation, and there is nothing to say it won't hold on to the dominance it has earned into the future.
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Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2000
$36m
SERIES C
Jan 2000
$10m
SERIES B
Total funding: $48.2m
Company benefits
- Work from (almost) anywhere - wherever you do your best work
- Mental health and well-being - company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth, company-paid subscription to HeadSpace, and company-wide weeks off a year so the whole team can recharge
- Generous parental leave
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Paid volunteer time
- Enriched learning and development opportunities - leadership development & access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Debby Soo
(CEO)After graduating from Stanford with a liberal arts major, Debby started their career in investment banking. Thereafter they worked in Google’s Strategic Partnerships Group and then spent a decade at KAYAK, eventually becoming CCO.
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