Senior Postgres Platform Engineer
Dell Technologies · Posted Oct 5
Enterprise infrastructure, personal computers, servers, storage, and cloud technology solutions
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About the role
The Database Platform team at Dell Technologies evaluates new database technologies and sets database system administration and programming standards, applying database technology to business problems while managing development and production database environments with emphasis on security, availability, and performance. As a Senior Postgres Platform Engineer, you will design and operate production PostgreSQL clusters at scale and build the automation and platform capabilities behind Dell's Database Platform, working with a global database engineering team to deliver self-healing database infrastructure using Ansible, pgVector, Kubernetes and agentic coding patterns.
What you will do
- Design and operate PostgreSQL clusters at scale - replication, partitioning, connection pooling, VACUUM tuning, WAL management - for a fleet supporting billions of transactions monthly
- Deploy and manage PostgreSQL on Kubernetes using operators (CloudNativePG, Patroni) with automated failover, persistent storage optimization, and pod disruption budgets
- Build Ansible-based automation for provisioning, patching, upgrades and disaster recovery
- Optimize pgVector workloads - IVFFlat/HNSW index tuning, dimensionality planning, ANN search performance - for AI/ML embedding pipelines
- Mentor engineers on Postgres internals and operational best practices
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 10–14 years of database administration and platform engineering experience
- 6-10+ years of production PostgreSQL at scale - partitioning, logical replication, connection pooling (PgBouncer), pgBackRest, WAL tuning
- 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, Bash, Ansible - authoring infrastructure, not just using playbooks
- Proven track record of designing self-service infrastructure
Preferred qualifications
- 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. Open source contribution and experience with Go lang
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies is a multinational technology company that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. The company provides foundational infrastructure for enterprises, ranging from personal computers and servers to cutting-edge AI factories and cloud data solutions.
- Industry
- Hardware
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 1984
- Location
- Round Rock, Texas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
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Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer
David Kennedy
Chief Financial Officer
John Roese
Global Chief Technology Officer & Chief AI Officer
Jennifer Saavedra
Chief Human Resources Officer
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