Senior Postgres Engineer (Backend)

TL;DR

Senior Postgres Engineer (Backend): Building a world-class OLTP service on Postgres with an accent on high availability and disaster recovery solutions. Focus on tuning Postgres to operate at scale for large datasets and securing customer data.

Location: US-CA-Menlo Park

Salary: $200K – $287.5K

Company

hirify.global is building a world class OLTP service on Postgres.

What you will do

• Orchestrate Postgres databases via a Ruby application.
• Work with AWS, Azure, and GCP APIs.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for database operations.
• Build High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.
• Tune Postgres to operate at scale for some of the largest datasets in the world.
• Secure and ensure customer data is protected.

Requirements

• 7+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
• Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault tolerant services.
• Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance, and scale.
• Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills.
• Experience with Ruby & Go.
• Experience running & maintaining large Postgres servers.

Nice to have

• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science.
• Deep, expert knowledge of Postgres (WAL, extensions, configuration, replication, etc).
• Experience designing and implementing large systems for public or private clouds.
• FedRAMP and DoD deployment experience.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global is growing fast, and scaling their team to help enable and accelerate their growth.
• Looking for people who share their values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and hirify.global.