Senior Postgres Engineer Overview We are seeking a Senior Postgres Engineer to own and tune our self-managed, on-premises Postgres deployment. You will help us get more from Postgres by tuning what we run and adopting existing extensions instead of building our own. Location: Remote. You will work remotely on infrastructure hosted on-premises. Responsibilities Performance • Assess and tune the deployment across configuration, query and index performance, and operational practices • Cover on-prem concerns such as hardware, storage, OS-level tuning, replication, backup and recovery, and upgrades • Identify bottlenecks and recommend prioritized, practical fixes Extension selection • Recommend existing Postgres extensions or plugins we can adopt instead of building custom solutions • Advise on maturity, maintenance risk, and fit for each recommendation Reliability and operations • Design, run, and improve high availability, replication (streaming and logical), and failover • Own backup, point-in-time recovery, and regular disaster-recovery testing • Plan and execute major-version upgrades and patching with minimal downtime • Automate provisioning, configuration, and routine maintenance • Maintain runbooks, documentation, and database security and access controls Technical leadership • Answer questions and review designs as they come up • Mentor and guide the engineers who own the system day to day Required Qualifications • 10+ years of hands-on experience operating and tuning Postgres in production at scale • Experience running self-managed Postgres on-prem, not only managed cloud services • Working knowledge of the Postgres extension ecosystem, such as pg_stat_statements, pg_partman, and pg_repack • Deep knowledge of Postgres internals, including MVCC, WAL, autovacuum, the query planner, locking, and replication slots • Proven query and index tuning with EXPLAIN ANALYZE, pg_stat_statements, partitioning, and bloat management • Production experience with high availability, replication (streaming and logical), and automated failover • Experience with connection pooling and load balancing • Experience with backup and recovery, including point-in-time recovery and disaster-recovery testing • Scripting and automation skills for provisioning, configuration, and routine operations • Experience with monitoring and alerting • Strong written and verbal communication, and a record of leading root-cause analysis Preferred Qualifications • Postgres committer or contributor status • Experience building Postgres extensions in C or Rust • Experience operating multi-terabyte Postgres deployments Salary Range $114,000.00 - $180,000.00 USD (Salary) • Please note that the salary information provided herein is base pay only (gross); it does not include other forms of compensation which may or may not apply to this specific position, namely, performance-based bonuses, benefits-related payments, or other general incentives - none of which are guaranteed, may be subject to specific eligibility requirements, and are wholly within the discretion of Astreya to remit. • Further, the salary information noted above is a range that consists of a minimum and maximum rate of pay for this specific position. Where an applicant or employee is placed on this range will depend and be contingent on objective, documented work-related considerations like education, experience, certifications, licenses, preferred qualifications, among other factors. Astreya offers comprehensive benefits to all Regular, Full-Time Employees, including: • Medical provided through UHC (PPO, HSA, Surest options) / Medical provided through Kaiser (HMO option only) for California employees only • Dental provided through UHC • Nationwide Vision provided by UHC • Flexible Spending Account for Health & Dependent Care • Pre-Tax Account for Commuter Benefit/Parking & Transit (location-specific) • Continuing Education and Professional Development via various integrated platforms, e.g. Udemy and Coursera • Corporate Wellness Program provided by Goomi Group • Employee Assistance Program • Wellness Days 401k Plan • Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance • Short Term & Long Term Disability • Critical Illness, Critical Hospital, and Voluntary Accident Insurance • Tuition Reimbursement (available 6 months after start date, capped) • Paid Time Off (accrued and prorated, maximum of 120 hours annually) • Paid Holidays • Any other statutory leaves, paid time, or other ancillary benefits required under state and federal law