PostgreSQL/PGD Operations Engineer || St. Louis MO (Remote)

The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced PostgreSQL/PGD Operations Engineer

(L3/Senior) to join our team. In this role, you will be the guardian of our critical database

infrastructure, ensuring its health, performance, and availability. You will be a key player in a

high-impact environment, directly responsible for keeping mission-critical systems running

smoothly.

What You’ll Do
Maintain the health, availability, and performance of our PostgreSQL/PGD environments.

Manage database failovers and lead incident response, owning the runbooks and

processes to ensure a swift and effective resolution.

Perform performance tuning and optimization to meet high-scale, low-latency demands.

Rapidly scale out new database builds across multiple regions.

Participate in an on-call rotation to provide timely support for production issues.

What You Bring

Required Skills & Experience
Extensive Production PostgreSQL Experience: You must have deep expertise in

database operations, performance optimization, and implementing High Availability (HA)

and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions.

PGD/PDR Expertise: Proven experience with bi-directional replication using

PostgreSQL/PGD/PDR is essential.

Cassandra Operations: Strong operational knowledge of Cassandra for high-scale,

low-latency workloads.

RDBMS & NoSQL Fundamentals: A solid understanding of database fundamentals,

with the ability to quickly diagnose and resolve replication and availability incidents.

Linux Operations: Proficiency in Linux environments for day-to-day operational tasks.●

On-Call Discipline: Experience and a calm demeanor for handling production incidents.
Preferred Skills

Familiarity with legacy Db2/mainframe systems and card-network transaction patterns.

Experience with multi-region rollouts and production change management for regulated

or mission-critical systems.

A strong automation and observability mindset, including experience with runbooks,

scripting, and metrics to reduce Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) and increase build

throughput.