Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer (Hybrid)

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$115k–$125k

H1B: yes

Opentable Senior PostgreSQL Database Engineer responsible for technical leadership of OpenTable’s PostgreSQL platform, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability. Own complex database initiatives end-to-end and serve as a senior escalation point for production systems.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, architecture, and lifecycle management of PostgreSQL environments to ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and scalable performance.
Automate provisioning, major-version upgrades, monitoring, and credential rotation to reduce manual effort and operational toil across database infrastructure.
Partner with Product and Data Engineering teams to review database designs, optimize schemas, improve query performance, and establish safe migration practices.
Drive cloud database strategy across multi-region environments, balancing performance, security, cost efficiency, and operational excellence.
Serve as a senior technical escalation point during production incidents, conducting root-cause analysis and implementing long-term reliability improvements.
Mentor engineers, establish reusable operational patterns, and raise technical standards through clear documentation and cross-team collaboration.

Qualification

7+ years of experience administeringProven experience designing

Required

7+ years of experience administering, engineering, and operating PostgreSQL or equivalent complex database systems in production environments.
Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL architecture and internals, including query planning, locking, write-ahead logging, replication, vacuuming, and connection management.
Proven experience designing, implementing, and operating high-availability, disaster-recovery, and failover solutions for critical database infrastructure.
Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming or automation language such as Python, Go, or Bash.
Hands-on experience building database automation using infrastructure-as-code or configuration management tools.

Preferred

Experience operating PostgreSQL in public cloud platforms, Kubernetes, or containerized environments.
Experience with telemetry and observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
Familiarity with supplementary data platforms such as Redis, MongoDB, OpenSearch, or distributed databases.
Experience improving developer productivity through self-service database provisioning and platform automation.

Benefits

Dental
PTO
Equity/RSU
Annual Bonus
Parental Leave
Life Insurance
Wellness

Company

Opentable

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