Senior PostgreSQL Platform Engineer

About

These positions are based in London, Berlin or Paris — relocation support is provided if required.

What you’ll be doing

• Run PostgreSQL at scale: Own the reliability and uptime of our PostgreSQL clusters — design for high availability, engineer for resilience, and ensure near-zero downtime across maintenance, upgrades, and failure scenarios.
• Build the database platform: Automate the full operational lifecycle — provisioning, configuration, upgrades, scaling, and backup — turning manual database operations into self‑service workflows that run without human intervention.
• Make best practices the default: Define database standards — schema design, connection management, query patterns, reliability — and embed them into the platform so the right thing is always the easiest thing.
• Own the platform end to end: Participate in the on‑call rotation, ensuring full ownership of the systems you build and operate.
• Own the direction: Shape the roadmap, drive cross‑team initiatives, and align the database platform with broader engineering and business goals.

What we’re looking for

• 4+ years of experience in database engineering, platform engineering, or a related systems discipline. We are hiring from senior to staff level — whether you are a strong Postgres engineer ready to take on platform ownership, or you have already been leading database platform strategy across large engineering organisations, we’d love to hear from you.
• Deep, hands‑on PostgreSQL expertise: strong opinions on replication, sharding, backup strategies, upgrades, and security.
• Hands‑on experience with Postgres automation and lifecycle tooling is required.
• Solid backend engineering background — Go is preferred but any strong language is welcome; familiarity with Kotlin/JVM is a plus as you’ll work directly with product teams who rely on it.
• A track record of turning database best practices into opinionated standards that engineering teams actually adopt.
• Cloud‑native in your DNA: hands‑on with Kubernetes and IaC tooling, running production workloads on AWS or equivalent.
• Ability to drive cross‑team initiatives and clearly communicate architectural trade‑offs to both engineers and leadership.
• The ability to work in a flexible hybrid setup, with 2‑3 days a week in the office.

We believe it’s our team’s varied identities and backgrounds that make us sharper and stronger. We’re committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected and has equal opportunity to thrive in their careers. For any questions on DEI during the interview process, reach out to your recruitment partner.