About the role

Senior PostgreSQL engineer leading reliable, scalable database infrastructure for OpenTable’s restaurant reservation platform in Toronto. Automating cloud-native operations, optimizing performance, and supporting engineering teams.

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 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, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement long-term reliability improvements.
Mentor engineers, establish reusable operational patterns, and raise technical standards through documentation and cross-team collaboration.
Provide technical leadership for the reliability, performance, scalability, security, and evolution of OpenTable’s PostgreSQL platform.
Own complex database initiatives end-to-end and help build an automated, cloud-native data platform.

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.
Preferred: Experience with telemetry and observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
Preferred: Familiarity with Redis, MongoDB, OpenSearch, or distributed databases.
Preferred: Experience improving developer productivity through self-service database provisioning and platform automation.