Senior Postgres Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

• You will:
• Design and operate PostgreSQL clusters at scale - replication, partitioning, connection pooling, VACUUM tuning, WAL management - for a fleet supporting billions of transactions monthly
• Deploy and manage PostgreSQL on Kubernetes using operators (CloudNativePG, Patroni) with automated failover, persistent storage optimization, and pod disruption budgets
• Build Ansible-based automation for provisioning, patching, upgrades and disaster recovery
• Optimize pgVector workloads - IVFFlat/HNSW index tuning, dimensionality planning, ANN search performance - for AI/ML embedding pipelines
• Mentor engineers on Postgres internals and operational best practices

Qualifications

• 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 database administration and platform engineering experience
• 6-10+ years of production PostgreSQL at scale - partitioning, logical replication, connection pooling (PgBouncer), pgBackRest, WAL tuning
• 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, Bash, Ansible - authoring infrastructure, not just using playbooks
• Proven track record of designing self-service infrastructure
• 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. Open source contribution and experience with Go lang

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