Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Postgres

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Postgres based in India.

This is an exciting opportunity to help build and scale a modern cloud data platform supporting mission-critical analytics and data workloads. In this hands-on engineering role, you will drive the reliability, automation, and operational excellence of PostgreSQL services across multi-cloud environments. Working closely with cross-functional engineering teams, you will contribute to platform architecture, develop production-grade automation, and strengthen observability practices. The role offers significant ownership, technical influence, and the chance to shape infrastructure used at global scale. If you enjoy solving complex distributed systems challenges while improving developer and customer experiences, this position offers an ideal environment to make a lasting impact.

Accountabilities:: As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will lead the reliability and operational excellence of PostgreSQL infrastructure while building scalable automation and cloud-native solutions. You will collaborate with engineering teams to enhance platform performance, resilience, and operational efficiency.

Manage the reliability, maintenance, upgrades, scaling, and day-to-day operations of PostgreSQL infrastructure.

Design and implement automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployments, upgrades, and service lifecycle management across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and modern CI/CD practices.

Build and maintain Go-based tools and services to improve automation, operational workflows, and developer productivity.

Implement robust observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and performance metrics.

Lead incident response activities, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements to strengthen platform reliability.

Collaborate with platform, networking, and product engineering teams to improve service architecture and operational readiness.

Mentor fellow engineers by sharing best practices for infrastructure management, automation, and reliability engineering.

Contribute to architectural decisions that improve scalability, security, and operational excellence across cloud environments.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience operating production-grade distributed systems and possesses strong expertise in PostgreSQL, cloud infrastructure, automation, and site reliability engineering. You are comfortable taking ownership, solving complex technical problems, and working in fast-paced, collaborative environments.

7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or infrastructure engineering.

Strong hands-on experience managing, scaling, and performance tuning PostgreSQL databases.

Deep expertise with AWS and practical experience working across GCP and Azure environments.

Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containerized infrastructure, and cloud-native architectures.

Experience developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

Proficiency in Go programming or willingness to develop and maintain production-grade Go applications.

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation tools.

Strong understanding of observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent technologies.

Solid knowledge of SLOs, incident management, reliability engineering principles, and continuous improvement practices.

Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

Self-driven mindset with the ability to work independently while contributing to highly collaborative engineering teams.

Benefits:

Remote-first work environment with flexible working arrangements.

Competitive compensation package.

Healthcare benefits.

Company equity through employee stock options.

Flexible paid time off and generous leave policies.

Home office setup allowance.

Opportunities to attend global company gatherings and team offsites.

Exposure to cutting-edge cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and large-scale data platform technologies.

Collaborative, high-impact engineering culture with strong ownership and career growth opportunities.

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