Senior Software Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Design and operate PostgreSQL platforms; define reliability standards, architectures, runbooks, and SLOs.
• Lead capacity planning, tuning, query optimization, backup, recovery, replication, failover, and high availability.
• Monitor reliability and automate provisioning, configuration, upgrades, maintenance, and decommissioning.
• Build guardrails, APIs, and self-service database tooling; assess platform technologies and participate in on-call incident response.
• Document operational practices, mentor engineers, and collaborate across engineering and security teams.

Basic qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on software development in an object-oriented language such as C#, C++, or Java.
• 5+ years operating PostgreSQL in large-scale, highly available production environments.
• Experience with PostgreSQL internals, performance, recovery, infrastructure as code, automation, and scripting.
• Strong communication and complex production troubleshooting experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Database reliability, platform or production engineering experience; PostgreSQL operators, managed services, Patroni, or PgBouncer.
• Multi-region databases, Kubernetes, GitOps, internal platforms, APIs, self-service workflows, security, compliance, SLOs, or cloud operations experience is preferred.
• Relevant cloud, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, or reliability engineering certifications are preferred.

Compensation

• Washington base salary range is $158,300–$232,575 per year.
• The role is eligible for a company bonus plan and restricted stock units.

Benefits

• Benefits include paid time off, parental leave, health plans, retirement plans, learning and development, and compassionate care leave.