Senior Staff SDE I
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EDB provides a data and AI platform that enables organizations to harness the full power of Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads across any cloud, anywhere. EDB empowers enterprises to control risk, manage costs and scale efficiently for a data and AI led world. Serving more than 1,500 customers globally and as the leading contributor to the vibrant and fast-growing PostgreSQL community, EDB supports major government organizations, financial services, media and information technology companies. EDB’s data-driven solutions enable customers to modernize legacy systems and break data silos while leveraging enterprise-grade open source technologies. EDB delivers the confidence of up to 99.999% high availability with mission critical capabilities built in such as security, compliance controls, and observability. For more information, visit www.enterprisedb.com
*Candidate Note: This position is 100% remote for candidates based in EMEA.
We are seeking a highly skilled PostgreSQL and Kubernetes Specialist to design, implement, and maintain the EDB Postgres Distributed (PGD) Operator on a multi-master distributed PostgreSQL solution that provides high availability, geographic distribution, and active-active replication for enterprise workloads.
As a member of the team, you will work directly on PGD operator’s architecture design, development, testing, and documentation of new and existing capabilities with EDB’s quality standards.
What you’ll be doing:
- Design, develop, test, and document Kubernetes operators to manage PGD clusters in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments
- Analyze business requirements and translate them into executable tasks
- Provide world-class production support to EDB’s PGD customers on K8s
- Participate in code reviews and collaborate with a globally distributed team
What you will bring:
- 5+ years of experience in a software engineering position
- Strong proficiency with Kubernetes Operators development in Go language (controller-runtime)
- Strong proficiency with Kubernetes API programming (event-driven)
- Experience with PostgreSQL internals (storage engine, WAL, replication, catalog system, or extension development)
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts: replication topologies, consensus, conflict resolution, eventual consistency, and failure modes
- Experience working on multi-version/multi-branch codebases with active backporting workflows
- Familiarity with build systems and CI/CD practices
- Comfort working with Git on a large, long-lived codebase with complex branching
- Strong debugging and performance analysis skills
What will set you apart:
- Prior contributions to Cloud Native PG or other Open-Source projects in the Cloud Native operator's landscape
- Advanced experience with Kubernetes administration, preferably with relevant certifications from CNCF such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator and Certified Kubernetes Security
- Expertise with PostgreSQL administration
- Experience with vendor-supported container orchestration platforms, both public (such as EKS, AKS and GKE) and private (such as Red Hat OpenShift, Rancher, or Tanzu)
- Experience with logical replication, logical decoding, or custom replication solutions
- Experience with high availability architectures and failover mechanisms
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We know it takes a unique mix of people and skills to help us in our mission to supercharge Postgres, and we understand that not everyone will check every box. We’d love to hear from you and we want you to apply!
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