Lead Software Engineer, TimescaleDB Enterprise

Tiger Data

2d•Remote

About The Position

At Tiger Data, formerly Timescale, we empower developers and businesses with the fastest PostgreSQL platform designed for transactional, analytical, and agentic workloads. Trusted globally by thousands of organizations, Tiger accelerates real-time insights, drives intelligent applications, and powers critical infrastructure at scale. As a globally distributed, remote-first team committed to direct communication, accountability, and collaborative excellence, we're shaping the future of data infrastructure, built for speed, flexibility, and simplicity. Now we’re extending that mission deeper into the enterprise. As a Lead Software Engineer for TimescaleDB Enterprise, you’ll help build and shape our on-prem enterprise platform: a solution that enables customers to deploy, manage, secure, and operate TimescaleDB in their own environments. This is a high-ownership builder role for someone who wants to shape both the product and the technical direction of a rapidly evolving enterprise offering. You’ll work across the full stack of the experience — from operational tooling and deployment systems to customer workflows and product capabilities — helping us turn complex enterprise requirements into pragmatic, scalable solutions. You’ll partner directly with enterprise customers, prospects, and internal stakeholders to deeply understand operational pain points and build software that solves real-world infrastructure challenges. This role is ideal for someone who combines strong engineering instincts with product thinking, customer empathy, and the ability to navigate ambiguity confidently. This role is remote. There is no strict timezone requirement, though overlap with North America and Europe is strongly preferred.

Requirements

Deeply entrepreneurial and naturally gravitate toward ownership instead of waiting for direction.
Energized by ambiguity and enjoy figuring things out when there is no obvious playbook.
Think holistically about products, not just code. Care about customer workflows, operational realities, usability, maintainability, and long-term product evolution.
Strong product intuition and can translate vague customer pain points into pragmatic, high-impact solutions.
Comfortable making thoughtful decisions with incomplete information and understand how to balance speed with technical quality.
Care deeply about customer experience and enjoy partnering directly with technical users to understand how products succeed or fail in real environments.
Enjoy building foundational products from an early stage and improving them rapidly through iteration and customer feedback.
Thrive in environments where engineers are expected to contribute beyond implementation, including architecture, product direction, prioritization, operational thinking, and customer conversations.
Use AI tools regularly in your daily workflow to accelerate development, problem-solving, debugging, and product iteration.
Communicate clearly, operate with high autonomy, and help create momentum for the people around you.
Care more about solving meaningful customer problems than defending technical purity.
Experience building developer platforms, enterprise software, infrastructure products, operational tooling, or database-adjacent systems.
Comfort working across multiple layers of a system, from backend services to operational workflows and user-facing tooling.
Strong familiarity and proficiency with AI coding tools.
Familiarity with PostgreSQL, distributed systems, deployment automation, or enterprise operational environments is highly valuable.
Experience working directly with enterprise customers or highly technical users is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

Leading the design and development of TimescaleDB Enterprise, our on-prem deployment and management platform for TimescaleDB.
Building and evolving core product capabilities, including: management consoles, deployment workflows, operational tooling, configuration management, and customer administration experiences.
Owning technical decisions across the product lifecycle, balancing speed, scalability, maintainability, and customer experience.
Working directly with enterprise customers and prospects to understand operational requirements and translate them into pragmatic product solutions.
Driving new feature development while continuously improving reliability, usability, and operational simplicity.
Partnering closely with Platform Engineering and cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Support, and Sales Engineering.
Helping shape the long-term product and technical direction of the Enterprise platform.
Operating effectively in ambiguous environments where priorities evolve quickly and engineers are expected to drive clarity.
Leveraging AI tools daily to accelerate development, debugging, documentation, and product iteration workflows.