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Description

• At Timescale, we empower businesses with real-time insights from their data, allowing them to make faster decisions and optimize operations. • We 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. • We're looking for experienced engineers to help us build and maintain the platform for our managed TimescaleDB cloud services. • You will work with a close-knit team, building and maintaining the infrastructure that powers our platform. • Your work will be instrumental in developing our Kubernetes-based clusters and infrastructure. • This role is perfect if you enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges and automating workflows.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering • Experience programming in the Kubernetes ecosystem or using the Kubernetes API (operators, controllers, and custom CRDs) • Strong programming skills (we mostly use Go) • Extensive experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred) • Experience designing, understanding, and debugging complex distributed systems • Deep knowledge of Linux, container environments, bash, and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi) • Experience deploying, operating, and using major production-level databases. Bonus points for PostgreSQL and/or TimescaleDB! • Experience deploying and maintaining Kubernetes clusters at scale. Knowledge of Kubernetes cluster orchestration tools like kops or kubeadm is a plus • Experience with CNI and CSI interfaces. Have an understanding of their purpose and solid experience with at least one CNI and CSI plugin - deploying, tuning, troubleshooting. • A good understanding of feature sets of different Kubernetes versions, be well informed about new features. • Understand different solutions for monitoring kubernetes health and troubleshooting, improving control plane and worker node performance. • Have experience tuning kubernetes components such as API server, kubelet, scheduler, kube-proxy, controller manager, for improving performance, security hardening and improvement of reliability. • Experience of managing self hosted kubernetes clusters (not only EKS, AKS or GKE) is a plus.

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)