Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps, Back End
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Full Remote
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop backend services and APIs, design the PostgreSQL infrastructure, and take ownership of projects from ideation to implementation, collaborating closely with various teams.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- You will join our backend team, responsible for the core services and infrastructure that power the Xata platform.
- Design and build core platform capabilities for our Postgres infrastructure.
- Develop backend services and APIs that power our hosted and self-hosted offerings.
- Work on database branching, storage systems, replication, lifecycle management, and orchestration.
- Own projects end-to-end, from identifying opportunities and proposing solutions to implementation, deployment, and operation.
- Contribute to our growing portfolio of open-source projects, including pgroll, pgstream, and other components of the Xata platform.
- Collaborate closely with engineers across backend, frontend, product, and platform teams.
- Participate in architecture discussions and technical decision-making.
- Participate in on-call rotations and help maintain a reliable platform.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- You are highly self-directed and thrive in environments with a high degree of ownership. You don't wait to be told what to do—you identify opportunities, propose solutions, and drive projects from idea to production.
Qualifications
- Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, C/C++, Java, or similar languages.
- Starkes Verständnis der Konzepte verteilter Systeme.
- Vertrautheit mit PostgreSQL und Datenbanksystemen.
- Strong written communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a remote environment.
Experience
- Significant experience building backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems software.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
- Experience working on database technologies or PostgreSQL internals.
- Experience building storage or infrastructure systems.
- Experience developing Kubernetes operators.
- Experience contributing to open-source projects.
- Experience building developer tools or platform products.
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What we offer
- We're stable. We've raised $35M and have years of runway.
- We're remote-first and have more than a decade of experience building distributed teams.
- We work asynchronously and keep meetings to a minimum.
- You'll have significant autonomy, ownership, and the opportunity to shape both the product and the company.
- We're open source at our core and deeply care about our developer community.
- Small team, large impact.
- Opportunity to shape the future of Postgres infrastructure in the agent era.
- Our team is diverse, with over 40% women across the company.
- Xata is female-founded and has an all-female board of directors.
- Competitive salary and equity.
- 30 vacation days (plus local public holidays).
- Healthcare benefits.
- Two months of fully paid parental leave.
- Budget for a co-working space of your choice.
- Learning budget for conferences, courses, and books.
- Flexibility, autonomy, and impact from day one.
- Two company offsites per year, with partners and children welcome.
- Significant opportunities for growth, leadership, and career development.
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Xata
Xata is a company focused on cloud-native Postgres infrastructure and supports open-source initiatives. The platform allows teams to quickly generate isolated Postgres environments for AI agents without affecting the existing production database. The company values an engaged developer community and sees itself as a small team with significant impact.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Full Remote
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Senior/Staff Backend Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Full Remote
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
