Infrastructure Engineer (RDS)
Core
Build an internal Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering providing PostgreSQL to product teams, focusing on resilience, performance, and developer experience for a platform handling over a trillion euros in payments.
Role type
Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Database Platform)
Builds
Internal DBaaS platform (PostgreSQL) with automation, tooling, and abstraction layers for provisioning, scaling, and operating stateful systems.
Domain
Financial Technology / Cloud Infrastructure / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Linux (networking, file systems, kernel tuning), Go, Python, PostgreSQL, distributed systems principles, root-cause analysis, system metrics analysis, automated failover design, regional high availability design, storage replication, networking, compute, storage.
Preferred skills
Kubernetes Operators, PostgreSQL internals, OpenStack, server fleet management, Infrastructure-as-Code (Temporal, Ansible, Puppet), Secret Management (Vault), observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
Technologies
Go, Python, PostgreSQL, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Ansible, Puppet, Vault, Temporal
Responsibilities
Design and develop the internal DBaaS offering; ensure high availability and disaster recovery; investigate complex performance bottlenecks; build tooling to abstract complexity of large-scale stateful systems; participate in on-call rotation for incident response and toil reduction.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC