Senior Postgres Platform Engineer - Database Platform
About the job
- 10–14 years of database administration and platform engineering experience.
- 6–10+ years of production PostgreSQL at scale, including partitioning, logical replication, connection pooling with PgBouncer, pgBackRest, and WAL tuning.
- 3+ years of Kubernetes experience for stateful workloads, including operators, persistent storage design, backup and restore in Kubernetes, and multi-cluster patterns.
- 3+ years building automation frameworks in Python, Bash, and Ansible, including authoring infrastructure rather than only using playbooks.
- A proven track record of designing self-service infrastructure.
- Evaluate new database technologies and tools in the industry.
- Set database system administration and programming standards.
- Apply database technology to business problems.
- Manage development and production database environments with emphasis on security, availability, and performance.
- Determine the appropriateness of data for storage and optimum storage organization.
- Create sustainable and maintainable tools to automate database provisioning, patching, monitoring, metrics, maintenance, and administration.
- Design and operate PostgreSQL clusters at scale, including replication, partitioning, connection pooling, VACUUM tuning, and WAL management, for a fleet supporting billions of transactions monthly.
- Deploy and manage PostgreSQL on Kubernetes using operators such as CloudNativePG and Patroni, with automated failover, persistent storage optimization, and pod disruption budgets.
- Build Ansible-based automation for provisioning, patching, upgrades, and disaster recovery.
- Optimize pgVector workloads, including IVFFlat and HNSW index tuning, dimensionality planning, and approximate nearest-neighbor search performance, for AI/ML embedding pipelines.
- Mentor engineers on PostgreSQL internals and operational best practices.
- Production experience with pgVector and high-dimension embedding workloads, including retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search.
- Experience with agentic coding or large-language-model-augmented operations, including self-healing scripts, natural-language-to-query interfaces, or autonomous remediation.
- Open-source contribution experience.
- Experience with Go.
About the company
Dell Technologies makes laptops, desktops, servers, data storage and networking equipment for businesses, governments, schools and consumers, and it builds many of the server racks inside large AI data centers. In 2016 it completed its $67 billion purchase of storage maker EMC, then the largest technology deal ever. One division sells PCs, monitors and Alienware gaming computers, while the other sells PowerEdge servers, storage arrays and networking gear to companies running their own data centers. Dell earns money from those hardware sales plus support, financing and subscription services. Michael Dell founded the company in 1984 from his University of Texas dorm room, and it is based in Round Rock, Texas.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$5.3M
Headquarters
Round Rock, Texas
Founded
1984
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What believers are saying
- AI demand is surging: Dell booked $60.9 billion in AI server orders in the quarter ending July 2026.
- A $95 billion order backlog gives teams years of work: Dell raised its fiscal 2027 sales forecast to $192 billion.
- Dell pays for staff to keep learning: its benefits profile lists tuition assistance and apprenticeship programs.
What critics are saying
- Jobs keep shrinking: Dell's March 2026 annual report showed headcount down 10% to about 97,000, a third straight yearly cut.
- A few giant buyers drive AI sales: SpaceX and CoreWeave ranked among Dell's largest customers in August 2026.
- PCs earn thin profits: Dell's PC division kept just 7.6 cents of operating profit per sales dollar last quarter.
What makes Dell Technologies unique
- Dell sells both halves of computing: data center gear brought in $31.8 billion last quarter, PCs another $15.0 billion.
- The founder still controls it: Michael Dell, chairman and CEO, holds super-voting shares with over half the director votes.
- Dell sells straight to buyers at scale: its own sales force, not resellers, brings in about half of revenue.
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