Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tiger Data, formerly Timescale, empowers developers and businesses with the fastest PostgreSQL platform designed for transactional, analytical, and agentic workloads. They are seeking extraordinary database engineers to design, code, and test the core of their PostgreSQL-based database, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance.

Responsibilities

• 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 TigerData 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

Skills

• 5+ years of engineering experience
• Expertise in building industrial-strength software in C/C++ for large code bases
• Solid knowledge of SQL, query processing and database engines, concurrency control, data replication, and/or distributed systems
• Passion for building highly reliable system software
• Experience in PostgreSQL internal development is highly desirable (but not required)
• Experience with industry-standard software validation tools helpful, e.g., Jepsen, Valgrind, Coverity, pprof, etc

Benefits

• Flexible PTO and comprehensive family leave
• Fridays off in August 😎
• Fully remote opportunities globally
• Stock options for long-term growth
• Monthly WiFi stipend
• Professional development and educational resources 📚
• Premium insurance options for you and your family (US-based employees)

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