Postgres Database Engineer

The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation software application enhancements and new products for a changing world. Working at the cutting edge, we design and develop software for platforms, peripherals, applications and diagnostics - all with the most advanced technologies, tools, software engineering methodologies and the collaboration of internal and external partners.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound impact as Postgres Database Engineer on our growing and dynamic team in Round Rock, Texas.

What you'll achieve

As a Postgres Database Engineer, you will architect Dell's global PostgreSQL platform strategy and build the autonomous tooling that enables self-healing database operations across thousands of instances. You will work with global database engineering pods to define Kubernetes-native deployment standards, mentor database engineers, and represent Postgres platform requirements in executive planning and vendor negotiations.

You will:

• Architect and lead PostgreSQL platform strategy across Dell's global fleet - HA design, disaster recovery, security hardening, and performance baselines for thousands of instances
• Design and implement Postgres-on-Kubernetes at scale using operators (CloudNativePG/Patroni), storage architecture, multi-region failover, and observability integration
• Build agentic/autonomous tooling for self-healing failover, automated VACUUM/analyze scheduling, and predictive capacity alerts using LLM-augmented logic
• Author Infrastructure-as-Code modules (Ansible)
• Mentor engineers through weekly architecture reviews and represent Postgres requirements planning and vendor negotiations

Essential Requirements

• 10-14 years of IT infrastructure or platform engineering experience, or 7+ years with exceptional depth demonstrated through production scale, open-source contributions, or published work
• 6+ years of production PostgreSQL at scale - partitioning, logical replication, connection pooling (PgBouncer), WAL tuning, Patroni, pgBackRest
• 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, Go, or Bash - authoring infrastructure, not just using playbooks
• Proven track record of designing and developing Database as a service

• 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
• Contributions to PostgreSQL ecosystem open-source projects (patches, extensions, operators, or tooling)