Senior Software Engineer, Database

Engineering
Timescale is building the world’s next great database company on top of industry-standard PostgreSQL, and we need your help!  We need extraordinary database engineers to join our team.

You will design, code, and test the core of our PostgreSQL-based time-series database. We focus on building a scalable, reliable, robust, usable, secure, and performant database. You should have strong systems-building experience and expertise in C, understand both query optimization and database systems and ideally already be a PostgreSQL expert (or show an interest and quick aptitude to become a PostgreSQL expert).

Timescale is a 100% remote organization with engineers throughout the world; this is a full-time position.

Responsibilities

Play a core role in helping to design and develop new database capabilities, including analytics, clustering and distributed operations, query and storage optimizations, and more.
Develop, test, and release new features and functionality from our database technical roadmap.
Continually improve, optimize, and test the existing functionality of TimescaleDB.
Improve infrastructure to evaluate and test database correctness and performance.
Work closely with our Cloud Engineering team to build a world-class experience for our Timescale customers.
Provide elevated technical assistance to high-value customers, gaining insight into the needs and experiences of our users.
Be an enthusiastic and personable teammate, receiving and providing code reviews and partnering and helping other engineers.
Requirements

Expertise in building industrial-strength software in C/C++ for large code bases.
5+ years of engineering experience.
Experience in PostgreSQL internal development is highly desirable (but not required).
Solid knowledge of SQL, query processing and database engines, concurrency control, data replication, and/or distributed systems.
Passionate about building highly reliable system software.
Experience with industry-standard software validation tools helpful, e.g., Jepsen, Valgrind, Coverity, pprof, etc.