Senior Software Engineer, Timescale

• You should have strong systems-building experience and expertise in C, understand both query optimization and database systems and ideally already be a PostgreSQL expert (or show an interest and quick aptitude to become a PostgreSQL expert)
• Expertise in building industrial-strength software in C/C++ for large code bases
• 5+ years of engineering experience
• Experience in PostgreSQL internal development is highly desirable (but not required)
• Solid knowledge of SQL, query processing and database engines, concurrency control, data replication, and/or distributed systems
• Passionate about building highly reliable system software
• Experience with industry-standard software validation tools helpful, e.g., Jepsen, Valgrind, Coverity, pprof, etc

• You will design, code, and test the core of our PostgreSQL-based time-series database
• We focus on building a scalable, reliable, robust, usable, secure, and performant database
• Play a core role in helping to design and develop new database capabilities, including analytics, clustering and distributed operations, query and storage optimizations, and more
• Develop, test, and release new features and functionality from our database technical roadmap
• Continually improve, optimize, and test the existing functionality of TimescaleDB
• Improve infrastructure to evaluate and test database correctness and performance
• Work closely with our Cloud Engineering team to build a world-class experience for our Timescale customers
• Provide elevated technical assistance to high-value customers, gaining insight into the needs and experiences of our users
• Be an enthusiastic and personable teammate, receiving and providing code reviews and partnering and helping other engineers

• 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

Total funding: $184.8m

Timescale helps developers and businesses manage and analyze big data sets that power large-scale operations. It offers this through its own open-source time-series SQL database which, unlike many competitors, is built with PostgreSQL.