Dell

Postgres Database Engineer

Dell$130K — $155K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 10-14 years in IT infrastructure or platform engineering, or 7+ years with notable open-source contributions or published work.
  • 6+ years of experience with PostgreSQL in production environments, demonstrating proficiency in partitioning, logical replication, and connection pooling.
  • 3+ years of Kubernetes experience managing stateful workloads, including operators and persistent storage.
  • 3+ years of experience in automation frameworks, proficient in Python, Go, or Bash for infrastructure development.
  • Demonstrated success in designing and developing Database as a Service solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and manage the PostgreSQL platform strategy across Dell’s global database fleet.
  • Design and implement scalable Postgres solutions using Kubernetes at scale, including multi-region failover.
  • Create autonomous tooling for self-healing database operations and predictive alerts.
  • Develop Infrastructure-as-Code modules using Ansible.
  • Mentor database engineers and participate in architecture reviews, representing Postgres in planning and vendor negotiations.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment fostering innovation and development.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and mentorship.
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies and tools.
  • Engagement in impactful projects that drive enterprise-wide database strategies.
  • Work-life balance with flexible work options.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Postgres Database Engineer

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

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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)

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