Senior Backend Engineer (EU/US/Canada Remote)

Xata is the modern Postgres platform that helps engineering teams ship faster with instant database branches, anonymized production-like data, and zero-downtime schema changes.

We connect directly to your existing Postgres, whether it's RDS, Aurora, CloudSQL, Azure Database, or self-hosted and bring a realistic, production-like development workflow to every pull request.

We're a Series A, fully remote team across Europe and the US (around 25 people). Our customers use Xata to eliminate staging pain, speed up development, and make Postgres scalable for AI-era applications.

What you'll be doing:

You will join our backend team, responsible for our database offering and API services.

Our tech stack:

• Golang
• Rust
• C
• GitHub Actions
• Kubernetes

In this role, you will:

• Be an active contributor to our core feature set, owning feature development end-to-end, including architecture proposals, implementation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Contribute to our growing set of open-source projects, including pgroll, pgstream and forthcoming initiatives.
• Collaborate in multifunctional project teams (with frontend engineers, design, PM) to create new features or improve existing ones. Optionally lead such projects.
• Participate in on-call rotations to handle and resolve critical issues.

Do you have experience in Slack?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * You are a self-starter, that can take responsibility.

• Significant experience developing performant systems-level software, preferably in Golang
• Exposure to Infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Github CI/CD, cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Good knowledge of Postgres and experience with various types of databases,
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems

Nice to haves:

• Experience with Cloud services, especially serverless platforms
• Experience working on open-source projects
• BSc/MSc in Computer Science

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Friendly, diverse and inclusive work environment.
• 30 vacation days (not including local public holidays).
• 2 months full paid parental leave.
• Flexibility, autonomy and impact.
• Home office set-up budget + co-working space stipend.
• We support continuous learning with budgets for conferences, courses and books.
• Healthcare.
• 2 company offsites per year, with partners and kids welcome as well. So far we've been to Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal and Iceland!
• Ample opportunity and support for career development and impact, there are no boundaries to your growth here at Xata.

* We're remote first and have more than 10 years of experience leading distributed teams at Elastic. Our team is distributed around the world, mainly in Europe and the east coast of the USA. * Be part of a healthy culture, a culture that truly thrives innovation, a culture that empowers people and cares about the team members * We work asynchronously. We don't do agile, the team meets weekly to check-in and then we use Github, Notion and Slack. * You'll have autonomy, lead features or projects, and bring ideas to the table. * We are community-driven and deeply care about the success of our users and customers. * Our team is diverse with over 40% women. * Xata is female-founded and the first developer platform to have an all-female board of directors., Xata is well-financed by amazing investors, including Guillermo Rauch (founder of Vercel), Shay Banon (co-founder and CEO of Elastic), Neha Narkhede (founder of Confluent), Elad Gil, Christian Bach, and Mathias Biilmann (founders of Netlify), and many others. We raised a $30 million Series A from top investors (Index Ventures and Redpoint), having the first ever 100% female board for such a technical company. We care about diversity in tech: If you come from an underrepresented background in tech, we strongly encourage you to apply. We strongly believe that our success is driven by the talented and diverse team brought together from a variety of backgrounds, cultures and countries. We are always challenging ourselves to build an inclusive culture that allows us to build innovative and successful products. Our founder, Monica Sarbu, has also founded a non-profit organisation called Tupu that helps tech companies support diversity in tech through mentorship.