.NET Developer building APIs and backend services for an IT services company. Supporting production applications, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and incident resolution.
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.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
- Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
- Company-paid subscription to Headspace
- Annual company-wide week off a year
- Paid parental leave
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Paid volunteer time
- Development Dollars
- Leadership development
- Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
- Travel Discounts
- Employee Resource Groups
- 20 days of paid time off
- Private health and dental insurance
- Life and Disability insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Retirement benefits
- Paid sick leave
- Medical leave
- Bereavement leave
- Floating holidays
- Paid holidays
- Eligible to be considered for an annual bonus
- Eligible to be considered for an equity grant
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