Senior Platform Engineer

4 months ago

Remote, AmericasSenior

Responsibilities

Maintain the distributed Kubernetes- and cloud-integrated control plane for managed TimescaleDB services.
Debug and resolve Kubernetes issues across multiple regions and cloud providers.
Automate database lifecycle operations including deployment, resizing, upgrades, and forks.
Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis.
Develop Go backend features, Kubernetes controllers, operators, and CRDs.
Improve observability, monitoring, deployment reliability, error handling, and CLI tooling.
Collaborate on scalable microservice and distributed-system architecture with infrastructure and software engineering teams.
Write unit and integration tests, maintain over 80% code coverage, conduct peer reviews, and enforce Go/Kubernetes best practices.
Support security compliance and vulnerability management.

3+ years of software or platform engineering experience.
2+ years of production Go experience and advanced proficiency with Go 1.24+.
2+ years of Kubernetes operations experience, including building, debugging, and scaling clusters.
Experience with distributed systems and microservice architectures.
Experience developing Kubernetes CRDs, controllers, and operators using client-go and controller-runtime.
Production PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB administration, migration, replication, backup and restore, disaster recovery, query optimization, and performance tuning.
Experience developing services and defining schemas with gRPC and Protobufs.
Strong Linux, Bash, container-environment, and Kubernetes lifecycle knowledge.
Experience with Helm Charts, CI/CD automation, monitoring and observability, infrastructure as code, and Kubernetes cluster management.
PostgreSQL experience without dependence on ORMs is required.
Rust and ECPG experience, cloud provider expertise, self-hosted Kubernetes experience, CNI/CSI knowledge, Kubernetes core-component tuning, or database-as-a-service experience are pluses.

11-50 employees