our company Security is one of the main pillars of our company'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 our company 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.
Requirements: 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.
This position is open to all candidates.