Senior Postgres Engineer

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Postgres Engineer to own and tune our self-managed, on-premises Postgres deployment. You will help us get more from Postgres by tuning what we run and adopting existing extensions instead of building our own.

Location: Remote. You will work remotely on infrastructure hosted on-premises.

Responsibilities

Performance

• Assess and tune the deployment across configuration, query and index performance, and operational practices
• Cover on-prem concerns such as hardware, storage, OS-level tuning, replication, backup and recovery, and upgrades
• Identify bottlenecks and recommend prioritized, practical fixes

Extension selection

• Recommend existing Postgres extensions or plugins we can adopt instead of building custom solutions
• Advise on maturity, maintenance risk, and fit for each recommendation

Reliability and operations

• Design, run, and improve high availability, replication (streaming and logical), and failover
• Own backup, point-in-time recovery, and regular disaster-recovery testing
• Plan and execute major-version upgrades and patching with minimal downtime
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and routine maintenance
• Maintain runbooks, documentation, and database security and access controls

Technical leadership

• Answer questions and review designs as they come up
• Mentor and guide the engineers who own the system day to day

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience operating and tuning Postgres in production at scale
• Experience running self-managed Postgres on-prem, not only managed cloud services
• Working knowledge of the Postgres extension ecosystem, such as pg_stat_statements, pg_partman, and pg_repack
• Deep knowledge of Postgres internals, including MVCC, WAL, autovacuum, the query planner, locking, and replication slots
• Proven query and index tuning with EXPLAIN ANALYZE, pg_stat_statements, partitioning, and bloat management
• Production experience with high availability, replication (streaming and logical), and automated failover
• Experience with connection pooling and load balancing
• Experience with backup and recovery, including point-in-time recovery and disaster-recovery testing
• Scripting and automation skills for provisioning, configuration, and routine operations
• Experience with monitoring and alerting
• Strong written and verbal communication, and a record of leading root-cause analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• Postgres committer or contributor status
• Experience building Postgres extensions in C or Rust
• Experience operating multi-terabyte Postgres deployments

Salary Range

$114,000.00 - $180,000.00 USD (Salary)

• Please note that the salary information provided herein is base pay only (gross); it does not include other forms of compensation which may or may not apply to this specific position, namely, performance-based bonuses, benefits-related payments, or other general incentives - none of which are guaranteed, may be subject to specific eligibility requirements, and are wholly within the discretion of Astreya to remit.
• Further, the salary information noted above is a range that consists of a minimum and maximum rate of pay for this specific position. Where an applicant or employee is placed on this range will depend and be contingent on objective, documented work-related considerations like education, experience, certifications, licenses, preferred qualifications, among other factors.

Astreya offers comprehensive benefits to all Regular, Full-Time Employees, including:

• Medical provided through UHC (PPO, HSA, Surest options) / Medical provided through Kaiser (HMO option only) for California employees only

• Dental provided through UHC

• Nationwide Vision provided by UHC

• Flexible Spending Account for Health & Dependent Care

• Pre-Tax Account for Commuter Benefit/Parking & Transit (location-specific)

• Continuing Education and Professional Development via various integrated platforms, e.g. Udemy and Coursera

• Corporate Wellness Program provided by Goomi Group

• Employee Assistance Program

• Wellness Days

  401k Plan

• Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance

• Short Term & Long Term Disability

• Critical Illness, Critical Hospital, and Voluntary Accident Insurance

• Tuition Reimbursement (available 6 months after start date, capped)

• Paid Time Off (accrued and prorated, maximum of 120 hours annually)

• Paid Holidays

• Any other statutory leaves, paid time, or other ancillary benefits required under state and federal law