Senior Software Engineer - Database Internals

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not specified

Timescale empowers businesses with real-time insights from their data, allowing them to make faster decisions and optimize operations. They are creating a movement to unblock developers who are building the future. Timescale is a product-led growth organization driven by transparent leaders and a globally diverse, remote-first team that is proudly building a modern PostgreSQL cloud platform. They need database engineers to join their team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering experience.
• Expertise in building industrial-strength software in C/C++ for large code bases.
• Experience in PostgreSQL internal development is highly desirable (but not required).
• Solid knowledge of SQL, query processing and database engines, concurrency control, data replication, and/or distributed systems.
• Passion for building highly reliable system software.
• Experience with industry-standard software validation tools helpful, e.g., Jepsen, Valgrind, Coverity, pprof, etc.

Responsibilities

• Play a core role in helping to design and develop new database capabilities, including analytics, clustering and distributed operations, query and storage optimizations, and more.
• Develop, test, and release new features and functionality from our database technical roadmap.
• Continually improve, optimize, and test the existing functionality of TimescaleDB.
• Improve infrastructure to evaluate and test database correctness and performance.
• Work closely with our Cloud Engineering team to build a world-class experience for our Timescale customers.
• Provide elevated technical assistance to high-value customers, gaining insight into the needs and experiences of our users.
• Be an enthusiastic and personable teammate, receiving and providing code reviews and partnering and helping other engineers.

Application Instructions

• The company states they will respond to all applicants.
• They strive to review all applications fairly, without bias, and shortlist based on relevant skills and experience.
• All active candidates will be informed of what is happening next in the process.

Company Information

• Company: Timescale
• What they do: Timescale is the creator of TimescaleDB and PGVectorscale, trusted by tens of thousands of organizations for their mission-critical time-series applications.
• Commitment: They are committed to empowering developers and businesses worldwide, helping them build data-driven products that measure everything that matters—from software applications and industrial equipment to financial markets, blockchain activity, consumer behavior.