Staff Backend Engineer, Database Automation (Go)

What you'll do

• Design and maintain PostgreSQL lifecycle automation, including provisioning, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning.
• Build scalable database platform capabilities and improve PostgreSQL performance, availability, and operational health.
• Lead technical direction for major initiatives, collaborate across teams, review changes, and operate services in production.

What they ask for

• Professional software engineering experience with PostgreSQL in large, complex production environments, including building or operating a database-as-a-service product.
• Proficiency with Go for designing, implementing, testing, and reviewing backend services.
• Experience developing Kubernetes operators, controllers, or comparable database or infrastructure automation.
• Comfort with infrastructure as code and database operations concepts such as high availability, replication, backups, and system-level performance trade-offs.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Ruby.
• Experience with Kubernetes operators, controllers, or similar stateful-service automation (Kubernetes is not required if comparable experience is demonstrated).

Pay

$152,800 — $259,200 USD (base salary)

Tools

Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Ruby, Ruby on Rails

AI focus

Use AI agents regularly for implementation, review, and reducing repetitive work; maintain repository context that enables the team to use agents effectively.