Senior Software Engineer, PostgreSQL
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About this role
We're a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers, builders, and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity, by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone.
Responsibilities
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our PostgreSQL Developer Experience team. This team's mission is bold and clear: Make building modern apps effortless, backed by the world's most resilient Postgres database.
- As a Software engineering expert, you'll transform complex PostgreSQL features into elegant, intuitive interfaces for developers. You'll move with urgency and a bias for action, while exercising sound judgment to balance innovation, risk, and opportunity against release schedules and ambitious project scope.
- Our back-end systems are mostly implemented in Python, with bits of Go and C.
- In this role, you're not just executing - you're shaping the PostgreSQL experience for developers, making it delightful, discoverable, and effortless to adopt.
- What You'll Do:Deliver E2E Developer Experience: Take ownership of the technical implementation across the full user journey - from onboarding and data migration to sustained usage, developer satisfaction, and growth opportunities.
- Obsess Over Usage Data: Instrument and monitor product usage to understand developer behavior, identify friction points, and drive data-informed improvements.
- Experiment & Iterate Quickly: Work in short cycles, shipping prototypes and features rapidly to test adoption and improve the experience.
- Work Across a Modern Codebase: Collaborate on a stack where back-end systems are primarily Python, with components in Go and C.
- Champion Quality at Speed: Deliver high-quality, maintainable code while embracing agility and rapid iteration, and actively participate in technical planni