Staff Software Development Engineer

Posted 11 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Software • Database
EDB, the leading Postgres Data & AI Platform, unleashes the power of Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI work
The Role
The Staff Software Development Engineer will develop database code and work on software upgrades for PostgreSQL, maintaining the existing code base, merging new features, reviewing patches, improving code quality, and documenting issues.
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A Little About Us

EDB provides a data and AI platform that enables organizations to harness the full power of Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads across any cloud, anywhere. EDB empowers enterprises to control risk, manage costs and scale efficiently for a data and AI led world. Serving more than 1,500 customers globally and as the leading contributor to the vibrant and fast-growing PostgreSQL community, EDB supports major government organizations, financial services, media and information technology companies. EDB’s data-driven solutions enable customers to modernize legacy systems and break data silos while leveraging enterprise-grade open source technologies. EDB delivers the confidence of up to 99.999% high availability with mission critical capabilities built in such as security, compliance controls, and observability. For more information, visit www.enterprisedb.com

Job Description:

We are looking for a PostgreSQL developer who will be responsible for developing database code and work on software upgrades for PostgreSQL and related open source forks.

What your impact will be:

  • Work closely with the project teams to maintain the existing code base and implement and merge new features.
  • Review patches from other team members.
  • In general, improve the quality of the code base in your daily work.
  • Merge upstream changes into the code base of our forks.
  • Identify and document issues in the product.

What you will bring:

  • 3+ years working as a database developer, ideally working with PostgreSQL.
  • Expert programming skills in C.
  • Write regression tests, both for newly reported bugs and new features.
  • Knowledge of software development under Linux.
  • Good verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

 What will give you an edge:

  • General PostgreSQL Knowledge.
  • Knowledge of Python.
  • Knowledge of distributed databases.
  • Experience with Linux, especially Red Hat or Ubuntu.
  • Knowledge in creating software packages.
  • Work with GitHub Actions workflows.
  • ETL fundamentals.
  • Experience with Product Support in an open source environment.

 

EDB is committed to supporting our employees' overall well being by offering a range of benefits and resources to promote a healthy work-life balance and wellness. We provide access to CuraLinc to aid employees in health and wellness tips and practices, as well as Wellness Fridays extending to December 2025! Check out our career site for more information on perks and benefits and reach out to our Talent Acquisition team for region specific benefits.

We know it takes a unique mix of people and skills to help us in our mission to supercharge Postgres, and we understand that not everyone will check every box. We’d love to hear from you and we want you to apply!

EDB is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. EDB was built on a commitment to trust and respect each other and to embrace an array of people and ideas. These values remain at the center of our culture and are key to our company’s integrity. 

EDB does not seek or accept unsolicited resumes or CVs from recruitment agencies. EDB and its affiliates are not responsible for, and will not pay, any fees, commissions, or any other similar payment related to unsolicited resumes or CVs except as required in a written signed agreement between EDB and the recruitment agency or party requesting payment of a fee.

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Top Skills

C
Postgres
Python
The Company
804 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2004

What We Do

EnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading Postgres Data & AI Platform, unleashes the power of Postgres to transactional, analytical, and AI workloads with unified governance and management. Built on the most extensible database, EDB extends Postgres to more workloads and supercharges it with built-in intelligence to optimize performance, cost, collaboration, governance and security. Now customers can manage more workloads from a single platform for database, data warehouse, data lakes and AI workloads from cloud to on-prem. EDB makes innovation possible for the world’s most powerful companies.

Why Work With Us

We thrive in an open environment, free from hierarchy and bureaucracy, where driven, smart, passionate, engaging people make EDB an inspiring and fulfilling place to work. We collaborate across 30+ different countries and allow people to be their authentic selves everyday. You'll get to work with kind and caring people who enable your success.

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