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Senior Software Engineer (Managed PostgreSQL)

Nebius· Backend
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Hybrid (Amsterdam / UK / DE hybrid)Full-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to build and operate Nebius’s Managed PostgreSQL service for AI workloads, spanning control plane, PostgreSQL internals, migration tooling, and AI integration.

Responsibilities

  • Develop the control plane and lifecycle automation for Managed PostgreSQL — provisioning, HA, failover, backups, PITR, version upgrades, zero-downtime maintenance.
  • Tune and harden PostgreSQL itself — replication, WAL, vacuum, query planner, connection pooling, extensions — and turn that into product features and sane defaults for customers.
  • Build migration tooling that moves customers off AWS RDS, Google Cloud SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and self-managed clusters with minimal downtime.
  • Drive the AI-Postgres story end to end — vector search (pgvector, pgvectorscale), hybrid retrieval, integration with the wider Nebius AI Cloud stack.
  • Run the service like an SRE — define SLOs, build observability, lead incident response, feed postmortems back into the platform.
  • Work directly with customers on architecture reviews, performance escalations, and production problems that don’t fit a ticket template.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time spent building or operating production PostgreSQL at scale (TB+ datasets, replication topologies, real failure modes you've debugged in production).
  • Strong software engineering skills in Go or another backend/systems language, with a willingness to work primarily in Go.
  • Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL internals: MVCC, WAL, replication (physical and logical), vacuum, query planning, extensions, partitioning.
  • Hands-on experience with the surrounding ecosystem: Patroni / Stolon / pg_auto_failover, pgBackRest / WAL-G, pgBouncer / PgCat, logical replication tooling.
  • The instincts of an ex-DBA — you can read EXPLAIN ANALYZE fluently, reason about lock behaviour, and know how to handle database corruptions.
  • Ability to write reliable code and dig into complex problems.
  • Teamwork-oriented approach.

Skills

Required:Go (or backend/systems language)PostgreSQL internalsPostgreSQL tooling & ecosystemEXPLAIN ANALYZE literacy

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Career growth and learning opportunities
  • Flexibility and ownership
  • Collaborative and innovative culture
  • Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
  • International environment and talented teams
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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