Distributed Systems Engineer Postgres Platform

Infrastructure Engineer

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, many others 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 have an office in San Francisco, with some team members distributed across the United States and Canada. We're a Series A Company with a flat structure, strong investors, and lots of room for growth.

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.

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.

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.

You'll 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. You'll develop deployment, monitoring, and testing infrastructure around the ParadeDB database product and the ParadeDB BYOC product. You'll directly interface with customers to assist in their initial release and in the on-going maintenance of their ParadeDB deployment(s). You'll develop and maintain documentation, including API references and user guides. You'll engage directly with our customers and open-source community on GitHub and Slack. You'll contribute to technical writing, product demos, and content marketing. You'll help shape ParadeDB's product roadmap and technical direction.

Please send your resume and anything else you'd like to share to View email address on click.appcast.io. We will get back to you as soon as we can. We're excited to meet you! ParadeDB is committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment for people of all backgrounds. We urge candidates of all backgrounds to apply. If you require specific accommodations, please let us know at View email address on click.appcast.io.