Senior Platform Engineer

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El Time, Puerto del Rosario, Las Palmas, Canarias
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Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software • Database • Analytics
The Role
The Senior Platform Engineer at TigerData is responsible for maintaining the platform's infrastructure, enhancing observability, developing back-end features, and collaborating with teams to ensure reliability and scalability of the system.
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At TigerData, formerly Timescale, we empower developers and businesses with the fastest PostgreSQL platform designed for transactional, analytical, and agentic workloads. Trusted globally by thousands of organizations, TigerData accelerates real-time insights, drives intelligent applications, and powers critical infrastructure at scale. As a globally distributed, remote-first team committed to direct communication, accountability, and collaborative excellence, we're shaping the future of data infrastructure, built for speed, flexibility, and simplicity.

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. If you enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges and automating workflows, this role is perfect for you.

TigerData is an all-remote organization, open to candidates preferably in EU, Spain. This is a full time position.

What you will be responsible for:

Service Maintenance

  • Maintain stability of control plane consisting of a distributed microservice architecture closely interacting with kubernetes and cloud provider APIs.

  • Debug and resolve complex Kubernetes issues across multiple regions and clouds

  • Automate database lifecycle operations (deploy, resize, upgrade, fork)

  • Participate in on-call rotation, handle incident response, perform root cause analysis

Feature Development

  • Develop back-end features for Tiger Cloud, specializing in a distributed microservice architecture with an emphasis on platform and database expertise.

  • Develop Kubernetes controllers, operators, and CRDs to extend platform capabilities

  • Enhance observability and monitoring systems

  • Improve deployment reliability, error handling, and client tooling (CLI interfaces)

Collaboration & Architecture

  • Work closely with infrastructure and software engineering teams to ensure platform scalability and reliability

  • Stay current with Kubernetes releases, features, CNI/CSI interfaces, and cluster orchestration tools

  • Contribute to system architecture for scalable microservices and distributed systems

Code Quality & Testing

  • Write idiomatic Go code with comprehensive unit and integration tests

  • Maintain >80% code coverage and enforce quality with golangci-lint

  • Perform peer reviews and follow Go/Kubernetes best practices

  • Ensure security compliance and vulnerability management

You’d be a great fit if you have:
  • 5+ years of software/platform engineering experience

  • 3+ years of Go in production environments

  • 3+ years Kubernetes operations (building, debugging, scaling clusters)

  • Experience in distributed systems and microservice architectures

Experience with our core technologies:

  • Go (Golang): Advanced proficiency (Go 1.24+), primary development language

  • Kubernetes: Experienced Kubernetes user familiar with client-go and capable of developing CRDs and controllers

  • PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB: Administration, migration, replication, performance tuning

  • gRPC & Protobufs: Experience developing services and defining schemas

  • Rust: experience developing low latency applications memory efficient applications in rust is a plus

Infrastructure & DevOps Experience:

  • Helm Charts: Template management and deployment automation

  • Kubernetes Operators: Operator patterns and controller-runtime

  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, automated testing, deployment pipelines

  • Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry/Jaeger, distributed tracing

  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Pulumi, or similar

  • Linux & Bash: Deep knowledge of operating systems and container environments

  • Kubernetes lifecycle: kOps

Database Experience:

  • A user of PostgreSQL, capable of interacting with various libraries and not dependent on ORMs (required)

  • PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB administration in production

  • Backup/restore procedures and disaster recovery strategies

  • WAL management and replication (streaming/logical)

  • Query optimization, tuning, and parameter adjustments

It would be a plus if you have:

  • Experience with TimescaleDB or PostgreSQL in production

  • Cloud provider expertise (AWS, Azure; both a plus)

  • Experience with self-hosted Kubernetes clusters (not only EKS/AKS/GKE)

  • Familiarity with CNI and CSI plugins (deploying, tuning, troubleshooting)

  • Experience tuning Kubernetes core components (API server, kubelet, scheduler, etc.)

  • Previous work on database-as-a-service or large-scale distributed systems

Our Commitment:
  • We respond to every applicant.

  • We review applications fairly and objectively, and shortlist based on relevant skills and experience.

  • We ensure clear and timely communication throughout your candidate journey.

  • We maintain a rigorous interview process with a high bar, designed to give you the opportunity to meet various team members you'll collaborate with across our organization.

About TigerData🐯

TigerData, formerly Timescale, sets the standard as the fastest PostgreSQL platform for modern workloads. Trusted by more than 2,000 customers across 25+ countries and powering over 3 million active databases, we enable developers and organizations to build real-time, intelligent applications at scale. Backed by $180 million from top-tier investors, TigerData is building the new standard for data infrastructure, built on PostgreSQL, designed for the future.

👉 👉 Want to get a feel for how we work and what we value? Check out our blog post: What It Takes to Thrive at TigerData

We embrace diversity, curiosity, and collaboration. Whether debating the perfect chicken nugget crunch 🍗, sharing workout routines 💪, or discussing your favorite plants 🌱 and pets 🐾, you'll find your community here.

Our Tech Stack:

We don't require previous experience with our tech stack, but enthusiasm for learning is key. Our technologies include PostgreSQL, Tiger Cloud, AWS, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, and innovative features like Hypertables, Hypercore, vector search, and real-time analytics.

Learn more at www.tigerdata.com or follow us on Twitter @TigerDatabase

What We Offer:

(Please note that benefits may vary based on country.)

  • Flexible PTO and comprehensive family leave

  • Fridays off in August 😎

  • Fully remote opportunities globally

  • Stock options for long-term growth

  • Monthly WiFi stipend

  • Professional development and educational resources 📚

  • Premium insurance options for you and your family (US-based employees)

Ready to join the future of PostgreSQL? We can’t wait to meet you. 🚀🐯

Top Skills

Bash
Ci/Cd
Github Actions
Go
Grpc
Helm Charts
Jaeger
Kubernetes
Linux
Opentelemetry
Postgres
Prometheus
Protobufs
Pulumi
Rust
Terraform
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The Company
HQ: New York, New York
115 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

TigerData is addressing one of the largest challenges (and opportunities) in databases for years to come: helping developers, businesses, and society make sense of the data that humans and their machines are generating in copious amounts.

TigerData is the fastest PostgreSQL cloud platform that natively supports full-SQL, combining the power, reliability, and ease-of-use of a relational database with the scalability typically seen in NoSQL systems. It is built on PostgreSQL and optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. TigerData is deployed for powering mission-critical applications, including industrial data analysis, complex monitoring systems, operational data warehousing, financial risk management, and geospatial asset tracking across industries as varied as manufacturing, space, utilities, oil & gas, logistics, mining, ad tech, finance, telecom, and more.

TigerData is backed by NEA, Benchmark, Icon Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, and Tiger Global.

Documentation: https://docs.tigerdata.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
Twitter: https://x.com/TigerDatabase

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