Senior Platform Engineer

Tiger Data

9d•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. We're looking for experienced engineers to help us build and maintain the platform for our managed TimescaleDB cloud services. You will work with a close-knit team, building and maintaining the infrastructure that powers our platform. Your work will be instrumental in developing our Kubernetes-based clusters and infrastructure. If you enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges and automating workflows, this role is perfect for you. Tiger Data is an all-remote organization. This role is a full-time position, looking for candidates in the US or Canada.

Requirements

3+ years of software/platform engineering experience
2+ years of Go in production environments
2+ years of Kubernetes operations (building, debugging, scaling clusters)
Experience in distributed systems and microservice architectures
Experience with our core technologies: Go (Golang): Advanced proficiency (Go 1.24+), primary development language
Kubernetes: Experienced Kubernetes user familiar with client-go and capable of developing CRDs and controllers
PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB: Administration, migration, replication, performance tuning
gRPC & Protobufs: Experience developing services and defining schemas
Helm Charts: Template management and deployment automation
Kubernetes Operators: Operator patterns and controller-runtime
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, automated testing, deployment pipelines
Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry/Jaeger, distributed tracing
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Pulumi, Apate or similar
Linux & Bash: Deep knowledge of operating systems and container environments
Kubernetes lifecycle: kOps
A user of PostgreSQL, capable of interacting with various libraries and not dependent on ORMs (required)
PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB administration in production
Backup/restore procedures and disaster recovery strategies
WAL management and replication (streaming/logical)
Query optimization, tuning, and parameter adjustments

Nice To Haves

Experience with ECPG and Rust: experience developing low latency applications memory-efficient applications in Rust is a plus
Experience with TimescaleDB or PostgreSQL in production
Cloud provider expertise (AWS, Azure; both a plus)
Experience with self-hosted Kubernetes clusters (not only EKS/AKS/GKE)
Familiarity with CNI and CSI plugins (deploying, tuning, troubleshooting)
Experience tuning Kubernetes core components (API server, kubelet, scheduler, etc.)
Previous work on database-as-a-service or large-scale distributed systems

Responsibilities

Maintain stability of control plane consisting of a distributed microservice architecture closely interacting with kubernetes and cloud provider APIs.
Debug and resolve complex Kubernetes issues across multiple regions and clouds
Automate database lifecycle operations (deploy, resize, upgrade, fork)
Participate in on-call rotation, handle incident response, perform root cause analysis
Develop back-end features for Tiger Cloud, specializing in a distributed microservice architecture with an emphasis on platform and database expertise.
Develop Kubernetes controllers, operators, and CRDs to extend platform capabilities
Enhance observability and monitoring systems
Improve deployment reliability, error handling, and client tooling (CLI interfaces)
Work closely with infrastructure and software engineering teams to ensure platform scalability and reliability
Stay current with Kubernetes releases, features, CNI/CSI interfaces, and cluster orchestration tools
Contribute to system architecture for scalable microservices and distributed systems
Write idiomatic Go code with comprehensive unit and integration tests
Maintain >80% code coverage and enforce quality with golangci-lint
Perform peer reviews and follow Go/Kubernetes best practices
Ensure security compliance and vulnerability management