Platform Software Engineer (TypeScript/Go)

Location: Fully remote and global; work from anywhere in the world

Company

A Postgres development platform providing integrated Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search services.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain distributed platform services and APIs.
• Lead projects improving scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Build data-intensive workflows, background jobs, and event-driven pipelines.
• Own service SLIs and SLOs, participate in incident response, and conduct post-incident reviews.
• Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, and profiling.
• Contribute to CI/CD, release processes, design documents, RFCs, tests, and end-to-end product delivery.

Requirements

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems, including consistency, fault tolerance, partitioning, consensus, and back pressure.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and/or Go, ideally with 5+ years building production services.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and container orchestration.
• Knowledge of multi-tenant architectures, API design, data modelling, networking fundamentals, and security best practices.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Pulumi; Terraform and CDK are also suitable.
• Availability to participate in on-call rotations for large-scale production systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with Postgres internals, logical replication, or CDC pipelines.
• Experience with service meshes, workload identity, or zero-trust networking.
• Background in performance engineering and capacity planning.
• Open-source contributions in systems, databases, or runtime tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Globally distributed, remote-first and open-source-first environment with asynchronous work.
• WeWork membership or co-working allowance usable anywhere in the world.
• ESOP equity ownership for every team member.
• Tech allowance for work equipment and an annual education allowance.
• Health insurance coverage of 100% for employees and 80% for dependents.
• Annual company off-sites and a community spanning more than 60 countries.