Platform Engineer — Postgres Platform

Department Engineering Employment Type Full-Time Location Remote San Francisco

What we do

ParadeDB is a transactional alternative to Elasticsearch built on Postgres. We build state-of-the-art full-text search and columnar analytics as a Postgres extension. Companies like Modern Treasury, BILT Rewards, Alibaba Cloud, and UnifyGTM use ParadeDB to:

Eliminate ETL/change data capture tools
Add transactional guarantees to their search indexes
Perform JOINs on their search data

We're a small, focused team of engineers dedicated to creating an inclusive and enjoyable work environment. We’re distributed across the United States and Canada. We are a Series A company with a flat structure, strong investors, and lots of room for growth.

What we want

We’re looking for an infrastructure engineer to join our team full-time. The ideal candidate should have:

A solid foundation in cloud infrastructure/architecture and Kubernetes
Experience working with Kubernetes in a production environment (bonus points if you have experience working with CloudNativePG or Neon)
Experience operating Postgres in a production environment (bonus point if you have experience working with Postgres features like logical replication and backups)
Proficiency in infrastructure tooling like Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, YAML, Bash/Python, etc.
Experience engaging with customers directly in a solutions engineering/SRE-type role or working on a Bring-Your-Own-Cloud type of solution
Experience supporting customers in a production environment
Experience building robust CI/CD pipelines for continuous benchmarking, testing, and releasing
Proficiency in cloud programming with Go
Familiarity with Elasticsearch-type workloads or analytical databases is a plus

We're seeking someone creative, independent, and excited by difficult technical challenges who can teach us as much as they learn from us. The ideal candidate will bring thoughtful opinions to the team, be excited to engage with and learn from customers, and be willing to wear many hats.

What you want

You want to be part of the core team of a fast-growing infrastructure startup You want to wear many hats and interface directly with customers You’re passionate about the Postgres ecosystem, databases, search technologies, and/or data analytics You’re excited to dive deep into Kubernetes and Postgres to build the best Postgres platform You’re excited about building and operating a production-grade Postgres infrastructure that deploys within customers’ cloud environments You believe in open-source and want to contribute to building a sustainable open-source business You want autonomy over your work and the opportunity to make impactful design decisions

What you've done

You have meaningful experience operating Postgres in production, whether through a previous job or through a high-quality open-source project You have prior experience working with Kubernetes, building complex infrastructure with Terraform, and managing complex deployment pipelines (bonus points if you have contributions to an open-source project that you can showcase) You have prior experience working in a solutions engineering or SRE role getting hands-on helping customers with software infrastructure deployments directly within their own cloud environment You have prior experience working in a devOps engineering role implement robust infrastructure for fast-moving engineering teams with demanding requirements You have prior experience at a small, high-performing startup Overall, you’re smart, willing to work hard, communicative, and open to learning about any service or framework you may not have worked with before

What you'll do

Develop and maintain the ParadeDB Bring-Your-Own-Cloud platform by implementing features centered around Kubernetes, Postgres operations like backups and replication, Terraform and cloud APIs, and more
Develop deployment, monitoring,...