Senior Postgres Engineer

Location: Fremont, CA

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