Staff Software Engineer, PostgreSQL

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Staff Software Engineer, PostgreSQL in USA

Beacon Biosignals
Full time
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USA
09/18/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Lead the design and architecture of complex systems and projects within the Datastore.
Design and scale PostgreSQL data models, Kafka-driven event pipelines, GraphQL APIs, integrations, and services.
Own pipelines that deliver dataset snapshots into the warehouse and design event-driven systems covering producers, consumers, replay, and idempotency.
Partner with product managers, scientific and clinical stakeholders, development teams, and support teams to translate requirements into platform solutions.
Debug and profile ambiguous cross-system problems while improving structure, test coverage, tooling, documentation, and dashboards.
Draft RFCs, lead technical design and discovery, make implementation trade-offs, and contribute to team planning.
Mentor engineers, provide actionable feedback, teach database and engineering practices, and potentially serve as a technical lead.
For the PostgreSQL-focused profile, operate PostgreSQL in production and lead schema evolution, performance tuning, access controls, migrations, replication, backup, and restore practices.

Requirements

7+ years of backend development experience, including at least 3 years focused on data platforms and backend infrastructure for data-centric applications.
Deep proficiency in at least one of data modeling, distributed systems, API design, or database engineering.
Strong production SQL and PostgreSQL experience, including schema design, indexes, query plans, query tuning, and complex SQL queries.
Hands-on data streaming and event-processing experience with Kafka or an equivalent such as RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or Amazon Kinesis.
Proficiency in Julia or Python; Julia experience is strongly preferred but not required.
Experience deploying and operating services in containerized environments, with familiarity with Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Helm.
Experience mentoring engineers and improving team practices, tooling, test coverage, or documentation.
For the Datastore Systems profile, experience with GraphQL and TypeScript/JavaScript with Node.js and end-to-end event-driven pipeline design.
For the PostgreSQL and Data Modeling profile, deep PostgreSQL knowledge including query planning, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE), schema design, zero-downtime migrations, replication, backup and restore, connection pooling, bloat, vacuum behavior, and extensions.
Experience or interest in using LLM-assisted or agentic coding tools in production, with sound judgment about guardrails.
Strong collaboration, communication, self-direction, and ability to work effectively in asynchronous, hybrid, or fully remote teams.

Benefits

100% remote work from anywhere in the U.S.
In-person office hubs are available in Boston, New York City, and Paris.
Total compensation includes equity, PTO, and other benefits in addition to the base salary.

Salary: $170k - $190k/yr

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