Senior Software Engineer - Database Internals

We need extraordinary database engineers to join our team. You will design, code, and test the core of our PostgreSQL-based database. We focus on building a scalable, reliable, robust, usable, secure, and performant database.

You should have strong systems-building experience and expertise in C, understand query optimization and database systems, and ideally already be a PostgreSQL expert (or show an interest and quick aptitude to become a PostgreSQL expert).

- Play a core role in helping to design and develop new database capabilities, including analytics, clustering and distributed operations, query and storage optimizations, and more.

- Develop, test, and release new features and functionality from our database technical roadmap.

- Continually improve, optimize, and test the existing functionality of TimescaleDB.

- Improve infrastructure to evaluate and test database correctness and performance.

- Work closely with our Cloud Engineering team to build a world-class experience for our TigerData customers.

- Provide elevated technical assistance to high-value customers, gaining insight into the needs and experiences of our users.

- Be an enthusiastic and personable teammate, receiving and providing code reviews and partnering and helping other engineers.

- Expertise in building industrial-strength software in C/C++ for large code bases.

- Experience in PostgreSQL internal development is highly desirable (but not required).

- Solid knowledge of SQL, query processing and database engines, concurrency control, data replication, and/or distributed systems.

- Experience with industry-standard software validation tools helpful, e.g., Jepsen, Valgrind, Coverity, pprof, etc.