Customer Delivery Engineer
TigerData (creators of TimescaleDB)
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
PostgresPythonSQL
About the role
- Deliver customer projects
- Implement migrations, data optimizations, and schema designs
- Scope and execute engagements with clear, measurable deliverables
- Fix complex technical problems
- Tune slow queries and configurations
- Write tactical fixes and scripts to unblock customers quickly
- Apply AI to accelerate engineering
- Use copilots (LLMs, AI assistants) to generate query rewrites and test optimizations
- Create reusable AI prompts and delivery playbooks
- Bridge architecture and reality
- Translate reference architectures into customer-specific deployments
- Adapt TigerData features (e.g., Hypertables, Hypercore, continuous aggregates, vector search) to real workloads
- Be the customer’s technical champion
- Own technical success during project delivery
- Escalate to core Engineering only when there’s a product-level gap
- Capture and share knowledge
- Write playbooks, scripts, and internal guides
- Feed learnings back to Product and Engineering
Requirements
- Have deep hands-on experience with PostgreSQL — especially SQL tuning, performance optimization, and schema design
- Have delivered complex migrations, data transformations, or optimizations in production environments
- Are fluent in SQL and Python (or similar scripting languages for data work)
- Are comfortable leading technical conversations with customers, especially under pressure
- Love using AI tools (copilots, LLMs) to speed up query rewriting, code generation, or problem diagnosis
- Communicate clearly and know how to explain tradeoffs to customers in high-stakes moments
- Bonus: experience in Solutions Engineering, Professional Services, or Technical Consulting
Benefits
- Flexible PTO and comprehensive family leave
- Fridays off in August 😎
- Fully remote opportunities globally
- Stock options for long-term growth
- Monthly WiFi stipend
- Professional development and educational resources 📚
- Premium insurance options for you and your family (US-based employees)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
PostgreSQLSQL tuningperformance optimizationschema designdata migrationsdata transformationsPythonAI toolsquery rewritingtechnical problem diagnosis
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcustomer advocacyproblem-solvingadaptabilityknowledge sharingtechnical conversationpressure managementclear explanation of tradeoffscollaboration