Software Engineer - DevOps Focused

Software Engineer - Open-Source Database Focus

Remote - (US only)

Contract (C2C): 12mo+

Eligibility: US Citizens & Green Card Holders Only

We’re partnering with a fast-scaling infrastructure team building next-generation, cloud-agnostic systems, and they’re looking for a Software Engineer (Developer Experience) with deep expertise in open-source databases.

This role sits at the intersection of DevOps, Infrastructure, and Database Engineering, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and automation across distributed systems.

What You’ll Be Working On:

• Designing and optimizing high-availability database systems using TiDB, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL
• Design, deploy, and optimize TiDB clusters in production environments
• Driving improvements in database performance, reliability, and failover strategies
• Building and enhancing infrastructure using Terraform + Kubernetes
• Solving complex challenges around Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines
• Architecting systems that operate independently of fully managed cloud database services|

Who you are:

• Hands-on experience with open-source databases:
• TiDB (strongly preferred), MariaDB, PostgreSQL
• Deep understanding of replication, failover, and recovery
• Experience working in cloud-native, distributed environments
• Strong background in Terraform, Kubernetes, and IaC principles
• Programming experience in Go, Python, or similar
• Solid Linux foundation (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu environments)

Nice to Have

• Exposure to additional databases like Redis or FoundationDB
• Experience with Ansible or config management tooling
• Background in database performance tuning and query optimization

Bonus Points

• Experience with TiKV / TiFlash internals or ecosystem tooling
• Familiarity with large-scale data workloads or real-time analytics
• Background working in database-heavy or platform engineering teams

If you’ve actually worked with TiDB in production and want to go deeper into distributed systems + database engineering, this is a strong fit.