Senior Postgres Engineer
Astreya · Fremont · $114,000–$180,000 (stated in the posting)
Senior Postgres Engineer
Overview
We are seeking a Senior Postgres Engineer to own and tune our self-managed, on-premises Postgres deployment. You will help us get more from Postgres by tuning what we run and adopting existing extensions instead of building our own.
Location: Remote. You will work remotely on infrastructure hosted on-premises.
Responsibilities
Performance
- Assess and tune the deployment across configuration, query and index performance, and operational practices
- Cover on-prem concerns such as hardware, storage, OS-level tuning, replication, backup and recovery, and upgrades
- Identify bottlenecks and recommend prioritized, practical fixes
Extension selection
- Recommend existing Postgres extensions or plugins we can adopt instead of building custom solutions
- Advise on maturity, maintenance risk, and fit for each recommendation
Reliability and operations
- Design, run, and improve high availability, replication (streaming and logical), and failover
- Own backup, point-in-time recovery, and regular disaster-recovery testing
- Plan and execute major-version upgrades and patching with minimal downtime
- Automate provisioning, configuration, and routine maintenance
- Maintain runbooks, documentation, and database security and access controls
Technical leadership
- Answer questions and review designs as they come up
- Mentor and guide the engineers who own the system day to day
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of hands-on experience operating and tuning Postgres in production at scale
- Experience running self-managed Postgres on-prem, not only managed cloud services
- Working knowledge of the Postgres extension ecosystem, such as pg_stat_statements, pg_partman, and pg_repack
- Deep knowledge of Postgres internals, including MVCC, WAL, autovacuum, the query planner, locking, and replication slots
- Proven query and index tuning with EXPLAIN ANALYZE, pg_stat_statements, partitioning, and bloat management
- Production experience with high availability, replication (streaming and logical), and automated failover
- Experience with connection pooling and load balancing
- Experience with backup and recovery, including point-in-time recovery and disaster-recovery testing
- Scripting and automation skills for provisioning, configuration, and routine operations
- Experience with monitoring and alerting
- Strong written and verbal communication, and a record of leading root-cause analysis
Preferred Qualifications
- Postgres committer or contributor status
- Experience building Postgres extensions in C or Rust
- Experience operating multi-terabyte Postgres deployments
Salary Range
$114,000.00 - $180,000.00 USD (Salary)- Please note that the salary information provided herein is base pay only (gross); it does not include other forms of compensation which may or may not apply to this specific position, namely, performance-based bonuses, benefits-related payments, or other general incentives - none of which are guaranteed, may be subject to specific eligibility requirements, and are wholly within the discretion of Astreya to remit.
- Further, the salary information noted above is a range that consists of a minimum and maximum rate of pay for this specific position. Where an applicant or employee is placed on this range will depend and be contingent on objective, documented work-related considerations like education, experience, certifications, licenses, preferred qualifications, among other factors.
Astreya offers comprehensive benefits to all Regular, Full-Time Employees, including:
Medical provided through UHC (PPO, HSA, Surest options) / Medical provided through Kaiser (HMO option only) for California employees only
Dental provided through UHC
Nationwide Vision provided by UHC
Flexible Spending Account for Health & Dependent Care
Pre-Tax Account for Commuter Benefit/Parking & Transit (location-specific)
Continuing Education and Professional Development via various integrated platforms, e.g. Udemy and Coursera
Corporate Wellness Program provided by Goomi Group
Employee Assistance Program
Wellness Days
401k Plan
Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
Short Term & Long Term Disability
Critical Illness, Critical Hospital, and Voluntary Accident Insurance
Tuition Reimbursement (available 6 months after start date, capped)
Paid Time Off (accrued and prorated, maximum of 120 hours annually)
Paid Holidays
Any other statutory leaves, paid time, or other ancillary benefits required under state and federal law