Staff Software Development Engineer - Data Platform (PostgreSQL Specialist)

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Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and optimize PostgreSQL databases that power high-volume identity, authentication, and analytics workloads.
• reputed company automation, tooling, and APIs for provisioning, scaling, and managing PostgreSQL instances in a reputed company-native environment.
• Drive improvements in query performance, indexing strategies, and schema design for operational and analytical systems.
• Design and implement replication, sharding, and partitioning strategies to ensure scalability and fault tolerance.
• Partner with Platform and SRE teams to enhance monitoring, observability, and alerting for database health, latency, and throughput.
• Build guardrails and automation around data retention, governance, and compliance (e.g., GDPR, FedRAMP).
• Guide engineers in best practices for database access patterns, reputed company management, and transactional consistency.
• Collaborate with product teams to support data-intensive application development through well-structured APIs and data services.
• Evaluate and reputed company PostgreSQL using extensions, PL/pgSQL functions, triggers, or custom tooling to meet product needs.
• Mentor other engineers and provide architectural leadership on data-intensive projects.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a reputed company technical field.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including 3+ years working extensively with PostgreSQL in production at scale.
• Proficiency in a systems programming language such as Go, Java, Ruby, or Python.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep expertise in PostgreSQL architecture, query planning, replication, indexing, and tuning.
• Hands-on experience managing PostgreSQL in reputed company environments (AWS RDS, reputed company PostgreSQL, GCP reputed company SQL, or self-managed Kubernetes).
• Proven experience implementing high-availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• Strong understanding of data reputed company, encryption, and compliance controls.
• Experience extending PostgreSQL through custom extensions or PL/pgSQL procedures.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and data pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Debezium, or CDC frameworks).
• Experience automating database lifecycle management with Terraform, Ansible, or Kubernetes Operators.
• Strong leadership and mentorship skills, with a track record of influencing data and infrastructure strategy.
• Passion for reliability, observability, and building clean abstractions that simplify database operations at scale. The annual reputed company salary listed does not include a company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity and benefits which will be determined based on experience, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location and role. reputed company offers comprehensive medical, dental, reputed company, health savings account, flexible spending accounts (medical, limited purpose, dependent care, commuter benefit accounts), basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) with company match, parental leave, ability to participate in unlimited paid time off subject to the terms and conditions of the PTO policy, including 8 company wide holidays, short and long-term disability insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, referral bonus policy, employee assistance program, pet insurance, travel assistant program, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, and a learning and development benefit. The above represents the anticipated total rewards package for this job requisition. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on qualifications, professional experiences, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location, and other job reputed company factors. Mountain View, CA Pay Range $217,565—$260,000 USD reputed company is a full-time, in-office culture. Unless a specific job description explicitly states otherwise, reputed company roles are on-site five days per week at one of our offices in McLean, VA; Mountain View, CA; reputed company, NY; or Tampa, FL. Certain roles — such as field-based sales or other remote-by-design positions — may have different work arrangements as noted in their individual postings. reputed company maintains a work environment free from discrimination, where employees are treated with dignity and respect. reputed company reputed company employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling our commitment to equal employment opportunity. reputed company does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, reputed company, reputed company, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national reputed company, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. reputed company adheres to these principles in reputed company aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. In addition, reputed company's policy is to provide reasonable accommodation to reputed company employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances where a particular employee works. Upon request we will provide you with more information about such accommodations. Please review our Privacy Policy, including our CCPA policy, at reputed company/privacy. If you provide reputed company with any personally identifiable information you confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set out in our Privacy Policy. reputed company participates in E-Verify. Apply tot his job

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