Postgres Engineer

We’re looking for a Senior Postgres Engineer to join our Postgres Team and help maintain and expand the stability and functionality of our hosted Postgres offering . You’ll work closely with customers, partners, product, engineering, support and success, helping us maintain a secure, stable, performant, and functional Postgres foundation.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in async, fast-paced environments and is excited about building developer tools that scale to millions.

- Build and maintain PostgreSQL extensions in C and Rust, with a deep understanding of internals — parser, planner, WAL mechanics, and MVCC

- Diagnose and resolve issues in managed PostgreSQL deployments, including custom extension failures, core dump analysis, and performance bottlenecks

- Own idempotent deployment pipelines across thousands of running PostgreSQL instances, including testing and rollout strategies

- Manage complex extension ecosystems — compatibility, upgrade paths, and conflict resolution

- Work with PostgreSQL's background worker framework, shared memory management, and hook system to build reliable, scalable functionality

- Collaborate closely with customers, partners, product, engineering, support, and success teams to maintain a secure, stable, and performant Postgres foundation

- Deep expertise in PostgreSQL internals - query planner, executor, and storage engine mechanics

- Proven experience building PostgreSQL extensions in both C and Rust

- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL's permission model: RLS, roles, and grant systems

- Experience troubleshooting production issues in managed PostgreSQL environments, including custom extension issues, performance bottlenecks, and resource contention

- Comfortable building, testing, and owning idempotent deployments across thousands of running Postgres instances

- Ability to read and navigate PostgreSQL source code confidently