Xata.io · 1 day ago
Senior Platform Engineer (US/Canada Remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior LevelXata is a modern Postgres platform that helps engineering teams ship faster with innovative database solutions. The Senior Platform Engineer will work closely with engineering teams to build scalable services, set up infrastructure as code, and maintain observability and monitoring stacks.
DatabaseInformation ServicesInformation TechnologySaaS
Responsibilities
Work closely with the other engineering teams to build services that are highly scalable and observable
Set up infrastructure and configuration as code. We use Kubernetes, and Pulumi for infrastructure as code
Implement automation tools and frameworks for automatic code deployment (CI/CD)
Set up and maintain observability and monitoring stack, as well as our deployment pipelines
Be part of the on-call rotation. The on-call load is shared between the SRE and the backend team
Share your experience at conferences or blog posts if interested
Knowledge of distributed storage systems and their operational considerations, preferably Ceph, OpenEBS, Mayastor, or similar cloud-native storage solutions
Qualification
Required
Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience on public cloud platforms, preferably AWS
Good understanding of PostgreSQL
Experience with Kubernetes, preferably using Kubernetes operators and running Postgres in Kubernetes
Experience with infrastructure as code
Hands-on experience coding, ideally in Python, Go or Typescript with a focus on clean, maintainable code
Experience with observability tools and incident management
Knowledge of distributed storage systems and their operational considerations, preferably Ceph, OpenEBS, Mayastor, or similar cloud-native storage solutions
Preferred
Deep experience with operating database products at scale
Benefits
Competitive salary and stock options.
Friendly, diverse and inclusive work environment.
30 vacation days (not including local public holidays).
2 months full paid parental leave.
Flexibility, autonomy and impact.
Home office set-up budget + co-working space stipend.
We support continuous learning with budgets for conferences, courses and books.
Healthcare.
2 company offsites per year, with partners and kids welcome as well. So far we’ve been to Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal and Iceland!
Ample opportunity and support for career development and impact, there are no boundaries to your growth here at Xata.
Company
Xata.io
Xata is a fully-managed PostgreSQL database platform. Designed for businesses to build faster, ship reliably and scale infinitely.
Founded in 2021
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$35MKey Investors
Index Ventures
2022-03-08Series A· $30M
2021-09-20Seed· $5M
Leadership Team
Monica Sarbu
Founder and CEO
Tudor Golubenco
CTO
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