Senior Platform Engineer (Remote)

Location: Remote from Europe, USA and Canada

Our mission:

At Xata we’re on a mission to radically simplify the way developers work with data with our Postgres database platform.

We're building a database platform for companies that rely on PostgreSQL at scale. And by “at scale,” we don’t just mean large volumes of data or high server counts, we also mean growing teams and the operational complexity that comes with them: staging and developer branches with data, data anonymization and privacy, zero-downtime schema changes, and more.

In every feature we build, we optimise for developer experience, high performance, and flexibility. This gives our customers the confidence to rely on us for one of the most critical pieces of their cloud infrastructure.

The AI wave of developer tools presents exciting opportunities and challenges - and PostgreSQL and Xata are well-positioned to be at the center of it. We’re a transparent company, maintaining several popular open-source projects, and we enjoy writing technical blog posts about how we solve various challenges.

In this role, you will:

• 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 (using Go) and Terraform 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.

You will have:

• 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.

Nice to haves:

• Deep experience with operating database products at scale.

Working at Xata:

• We’re stable. We raised $35M and have years of runway.
• We're remote first and have more than 10 years of experience leading distributed teams at Elastic. Our team is distributed around the world, mainly in Europe and the east coast of the USA.
• Be part of a healthy culture, a culture that truly thrives innovation, a culture that empowers people and cares about the team members
• We work asynchronously. We don’t do agile, the team meets weekly to check-in and then we use Github, Notion and Slack.
• You'll have autonomy, lead features or projects, and bring ideas to the table.
• We are community-driven and deeply care about the success of our users and customers.
• Our team is diverse with over 40% women.
• Xata is female-founded and the first developer platform to have an all-female board of directors.
• We incentivise Conference meet-ups

What we offer all of our employees:

• 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.

Our investors:

Xata is well-financed by amazing investors, including Guillermo Rauch (founder of Vercel), Shay Banon (co-founder and CEO of Elastic), Neha Narkhede (founder of Confluent), Elad Gil, Christian Bach, and Mathias Biilmann (founders of Netlify), and many others.

We raised a $30 million Series A from top investors (Index Ventures and Redpoint), having the first ever 100% female board for such a technical company.

We care about diversity in tech:

If you come from an underrepresented background in tech, we strongly encourage you to apply. We strongly believe that our success is driven by the talented and diverse team brought together from a variety of backgrounds, cultures and countries. We are always challenging ourselves to build an inclusive culture that allows us to build innovative and successful products.

Our founder, Monica Sarbu, has also founded a non-profit organisation called Tupu that helps tech companies support diversity in tech through mentorship.

We're eager to hear from you and if you decide to apply, we're rooting for you!