Senior Database Engineer (PostgreSQL) with Fluent English

Full-time, remote

Location: EMEA

Company: Nombox / Postgres.ai

As a Senior Database Engineer, you will be working on state-of-the-art solutions, involving:

• PostgreSQL tuning and administration methodologies and tools,

• machine learning,

• automation and cloud technologies.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience running PostgreSQL in large production environments

• Solid SQL and PL/pgSQL knowledge

• Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL internals

• Experience and understanding of working with distributed systems

• Solid knowledge of methodologies of PostgreSQL performance monitoring, troubleshooting and tuning

• Solid understanding and experience working with Linux

• Advanced written and fluent verbal English

• Self-motivation and strong desire to achieve the highest levels of expertise

Nice-to-have:

• Cloud experience (AWS, GCP)

• Advanced bash

• Experience with Go and/or C

• Experience with Python and/or Ruby

• Experience with at least one of incremental backup solutions such as WAL-E, WAL-E, barman, pgBackRest

• Experience with Patroni

• Docker, Kubernetes

• Knowledge of basic machine learning algorithms and experience with popular machine learning frameworks

• Experience working remotely

Responsibilities:

• Automation of all steps of Postgres DBA Audit process

• Development of new open-source cloud-friendly ML-backed solutions to automate:

  • database experiments,

  • PostgreSQL configuration tuning, and

  • SQL query optimization

• Direct work with our clients to implement our methodologies and tools