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Staff Software Engineer, PostgreSQL

USA🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-17 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design and scale PostgreSQL data models, Kafka-driven event pipelines, and GraphQL APIs for data-centric applications.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Data Platform & Database Engineering)

Builds

Datastore platform, event-driven systems, dataset snapshots into the warehouse, and production-grade PostgreSQL services.

Domain

Data infrastructure, distributed systems, database engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

PostgreSQL (schema design, query tuning, replication, migrations), Kafka/RabbitMQ/Pulsar/Kinesis, distributed systems, API design, containerization (Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Helm), mentoring

Preferred skills

Julia, LLM-assisted coding tools, GraphQL, TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js

Technologies

PostgreSQL, Kafka, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Julia, Python, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, Amazon Kinesis, Node.js

Responsibilities

Design and architect complex data systems and event pipelines; optimize PostgreSQL performance and manage schema evolution; mentor engineers and improve team practices; debug cross-system issues and draft technical RFCs.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship and architectural leadership

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