Senior Platform Engineer - Postgres Specialist

December 6, 2024

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New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

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New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a venture capital firm that forms enduring partnerships with ambitious founders across all stages of company growth, from idea inception to IPO. They prioritize relationships and invest not only in ideas but also in the people behind them, with a strong focus on technology and healthcare sectors. NEA's team includes experts in AI strategy and healthcare, and they explore the potential of technology to push the boundaries of possibility. Through diverse perspectives and deep insights, NEA aims to be at the forefront of innovation, particularly in AI and healthcare.

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51 - 200 employees

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📋 Description

Ensuring operational excellence, performance, and observability for our fleet of Postgres/Timescale instances Diving deep into complex performance issues faced by our Cloud customers Designing and implementing database related Cloud features, working across many layers of the stack to ensure a seamless cloud-first database experience Instrumenting excellent database observability from the application to the kernel level

🎯 Requirements

Strong industry experience operating Postgres databases at scale Established history of incident management in the context of database operations Good software engineering and distributed systems fundamentals Experience working with and debugging high-availability Postgres setups using Patroni or other industry standard HA tooling Intimate knowledge of the Postgres ecosystem, including extensions (e.g., pg_stat_statements, postgres_fdw, plpython) and operational tools (e.g., pgbouncer, pgbackrest, pganalyze) Deep experience with analyzing database performance, tuning Postgres parameters, and optimizing Postgres workloads. Nice to have: experience running Postgres workloads on Kubernetes Nice to have: experience writing applications that heavily interact with Postgres and/or Kubernetes

🏖️ Benefits

Flexible PTO and family leave Fridays off in August 😎 Full remote work from almost anywhere Stock options Monthly WiFi stipend Professional development and educational benefits 📚 Premium insurance options for you and your family (US employees)