Senior Backend Engineer, Tiger Data

• 5+ years of backend or platform engineering experience
• 3+ years of Go in production environments
• 3+ years Kubernetes operations (building, debugging, scaling clusters)
• Experience in distributed systems and microservice architectures
• Expertise in distributed systems and microservice design
• Experience with gRPC & Protobufs
• Experience developing Kubernetes operators/controllers with client-go or controller-runtime
• Solid understanding of PostgreSQL (admin, replication, query tuning, migrations)
• Strong focus on testing, code quality, and best practices (>80% coverage, linting, peer reviews)
• We don't require previous experience with our tech stack, but enthusiasm for learning is key. Our technologies include PostgreSQL, Tiger Cloud, AWS, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, and innovative features like Hypertables, Hypercore, vector search, and real-time analytics

Desirable

• We are seeking a skilled software engineer to join our team focused on building and maintaining our billing, pricing, and packaging software solutions at Timescale
• As part of our close-knit, all-remote team, you will have the opportunity to work on critical services that power our managed TimescaleDB cloud offerings
• Develop back-end features for Tiger Cloud, specializing in a distributed microservice architecture with an emphasis on platform and database expertise
• Design and build Kubernetes controllers, operators, and CRDs to extend platform functionality
• Improve deployment reliability, error handling, and developer tooling (CLI, APIs, SDKs)
• Build scalable, resilient microservices with strong observability (logs, metrics, tracing)
• Contribute to architecture decisions for distributed systems and service orchestration
• Collaborate closely with infrastructure engineers to ensure platform scalability and reliability

• We respond to every applicant