TigerData (creators of TimescaleDB)

Senior Platform Engineer

TigerData (creators of TimescaleDB)

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇪🇸 Spain

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoGRPCKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesPostgresPrometheusPythonRustTerraform

About the role

  • 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

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software/platform engineering experience
  • 3+ years of Go in production environments
  • 3+ years Kubernetes operations (building, debugging, scaling clusters)
  • Experience in distributed systems and microservice architectures
  • 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
  • Rust: experience developing low latency applications memory efficient applications in rust is a plus
  • 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, or similar
  • Linux & Bash: Deep knowledge of operating systems and container environments
  • Kubernetes lifecycle: kOps
  • PostgreSQL user and DB administration without 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