Software Engineer - Neki Orchestration
Core
Design and build the control plane for Neki, a sharded PostgreSQL product, to provision, scale, and heal clusters with minimal downtime while ensuring high availability and disaster recovery.
Role type
Senior IC distributed systems engineer (database infrastructure)
Builds
Neki clusters (sharded PostgreSQL) for high-growth companies in gaming, consumer tech, and B2B SaaS
Domain
Cloud database infrastructure / PostgreSQL / Distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, distributed systems design, fault-tolerance, Kubernetes, low-level OS concepts (multi-threading, memory, networking, storage), database operations automation
Preferred skills
Database-as-a-service experience, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), infrastructure-as-code, open-source contributions
Technologies
Go, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Vitess, AWS, GCP, Azure
Responsibilities
Design and build the control plane for Neki clusters; build and maintain high availability and disaster recovery solutions; build tooling for database operations, backup, restore, and migration; work directly with customers to translate workload needs into platform improvements
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC