Postgres Database Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level Data Architecture & Governance role at Iawmqy. Austin · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $99,518–$156,000 across the United States.
Iawmqy has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
dataroles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Set PostgreSQL direction for the global fleet, including availability, recovery, security and performance targets
- Build PostgreSQL deployments on Kubernetes with operators, storage plans, regional failover and observability
- Develop self-repair tooling for failover, VACUUM and analyze scheduling, and capacity alerts with LLM-assisted logic
- Create Ansible infrastructure modules, guide engineers in weekly architecture reviews, and bring Postgres needs to planning and vendor discussions
What you bring
- At least ten years in infrastructure or platform engineering, or seven with exceptional production scale, open-source contributions or published work
- Six or more years operating PostgreSQL at scale, covering partitioning, replication, connection pooling, WAL tuning, Patroni and pgBackRest
- Three or more years using Kubernetes for stateful workloads and building Python, Go or Bash automation frameworks
- A proven history of creating and designing a database-as-a-service offering
Who this fits
This role suits an experienced PostgreSQL platform engineer who can shape architecture and mentor other engineers. The position is onsite in Austin, Texas.
From the employer
Postgres Database Engineer
The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation software application enhancements and new products for a changing world. Working at the cutting edge, we design and develop software for platforms, peripherals, applications and diagnostics — all with the most advanced technologies, tools, software engineering methodologies and the collaboration of internal and external partners.
Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound impact as Postgres Database Engineer on our growing and dynamic team in Round Rock, Texas.
What you’ll achieve
As a Postgres Database Engineer, you will architect Dell's global PostgreSQL platform strategy and build the autonomous tooling that enables self-healing database operations across thousands of instances. You will work with global database engineering pods to define Kubernetes-native deployment standards, mentor database engineers, and represent Postgres platform requirements in executive planning and vendor negotiations.
You will:
- Architect and lead PostgreSQL platform strategy across Dell's global fleet - HA design, disaster recovery, security hardening, and performance baselines for thousands of instances
- Design and implement Postgres-on-Kubernetes at scale using operators (CloudNativePG/Patroni), storage architecture, multi-region failover, and observability integration
- Build agentic/autonomous tooling for self-healing failover, automated VACUUM/analyze scheduling, and predictive capacity alerts using LLM-augmented logic
- Author Infrastructure-as-Code modules (Ansible)
- Mentor engineers through weekly architecture reviews and represent Postgres requirements planning and vendor negotiations
Take the first step towards your dream career
Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here’s what we are looking for with this role:
Essential Requirements
- 10–14 years of IT infrastructure or platform engineering experience, or 7+ years with exceptional depth demonstrated through production scale, open-source contributions, or published work
- 6+ years of production PostgreSQL at scale - partitioning, logical replication, connection pooling (PgBouncer), WAL tuning, Patroni, pgBackRest
- 3+ years of Kubernetes for stateful workloads — operators, persistent storage design, backup/restore in K8s, multi-cluster patterns
- 3+ years building automation frameworks in Python, Go, or Bash - authoring infrastructure, not just using playbooks
- Proven track record of designing and developing Database as a service
Desirable Requirements
- pgVector production experience with high-dimension embedding workloads (RAG, semantic search)
- Agentic coding or LLM-augmented operations - self-healing scripts, natural-language-to-query interfaces, or autonomous remediation
- Contributions to PostgreSQL ecosystem open-source projects (patches, extensions, operators, or tooling)
Data Architecture & Governance work from LinkedIn, X, Reddit and Upwork, in one list.
Each morning you get everything that fits, strongest first.
Data Architecture & Governance
Find me workBy the team behind dataroles.