At JFrog, we're reinventing DevOps to help the world's greatest companies innovate and we want you along for the ride. This is a special place with a unique combination of brilliance, spirit, and just all-around great people. Here, if you're willing to do more, your career can take off. Since software plays a central role in everyone's lives, you'll be part of an important mission. Thousands of customers, including the majority of the Fortune 100, trust JFrog to manage, accelerate, and secure their software delivery from code to production, a concept we call "liquid software." Wouldn't it be amazing if you could join us on our journey?
JFrog Security is one of the main pillars of JFrog's long-term strategy. We are pushing the boundaries of security analysis for both binaries and code, shifting left and delivering powerful capabilities to developers and DevOps teams. We are looking for an experienced Senior Database Engineer with deep PostgreSQL expertise and strong application-side awareness to join our DevOps organization and support multiple R&D teams at scale.
As a Senior Database Engineer at JFrog Security you will…- Own PostgreSQL performance, scalability, and reliability across large-scale security and scanning workloads
- Deep dive into database performance issues, including query optimization, execution plans, indexing strategies, locking, bloat, vacuuming, and connection management
- Work closely with application teams to optimize database access patterns from services and APIs
- Review application code and SQL usage with a focus on correctness, performance, and scalability
- Design, evolve, and optimize schemas and migrations for long-lived, high-volume datasets
- Support and fine-tune PostgreSQL in both cloud-managed environments, such as RDS and self-managed deployments
- Establish best practices, standards, and guidelines for PostgreSQL usage across teams
- Mentor engineers and raise the overall database maturity of the organization
- Act as a trusted expert for troubleshooting complex production database incidents
- 5+ years of hands-on experience working with PostgreSQL in production high-scale environments
- Proven expertise in PostgreSQL performance tuning, optimization, and internals
- Excellent SQL skills, including complex and performance-critical queries
- Strong understanding of how applications interact with databases, including connection pools, ORMs, transaction patterns, and failure modes
- Experience working with large datasets up to a few TBs in volume and high concurrency with 5000+ connections
- Familiarity with Go and/or Python at a level sufficient for code review and performance analysis - an advantage
- Experience with both cloud-managed PostgreSQL and self-managed deployments
- Solid understanding of schema design, migrations, and backward-compatible data evolution
- Ability to work cross-team as part of a DevOps organization providing shared infrastructure and expertise
- Strong communication skills with the ability to mentor, influence standards, and guide teams under pressure
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What We Do
JFrog Ltd. (Nasdaq: FROG), is on a mission to create a world of software delivered without friction from developer to device. Driven by a “Liquid Software” vision, the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform is a single system of record that powers organizations to build, manage, and distribute software quickly and securely, ensuring it is available, traceable, and tamper-proof. The integrated security features also help identify, protect, and remediate against threats and vulnerabilities. JFrog’s hybrid, universal, multi-cloud platform is available as both self-hosted and SaaS services across major cloud service providers. Millions of users and 7K+ customers worldwide, including a majority of the FORTUNE 100, depend on JFrog solutions to securely embrace digital transformation. Once you leap forward, you won’t go back!
