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# Senior Software Engineer (Managed PostgreSQL)

- **Company:** Nebius Group
- **Location:** Amsterdam, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Backup Devices, Cloud Computing, Cloud Database, Failover, PostgreSQL, Search Technologies, Software Engineering, System Programming, System Availability, Backend, Amazon Relational Database Service, Production Code
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://us.experteer.com/career/view-jobs/senior-software-engineer-managed-postgresql-amsterdam-ny-usa-58825236

## About the Role

clusters with minimal downtime * Advance the AI-Postgres story (vector search with pgvector/pgvectorscale, hybrid retrieval) within Nebius AI Cloud * Operate the service as an SRE (define SLOs, observability, incident response, postmortems feedback) * Engage with customers on architecture reviews, performance escalations, and production problems Tasks * 5+ years of professional software engineering with significant PostgreSQL-scale experience (TB+ datasets, replication topologies, known failure modes) * Strong Go backend/systems programming skills * Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL internals (MVCC, WAL, replication, vacuum, query planning, extensions, partitioning) * Hands-on experience with Patroni/Stolon/pg_auto_failover, pgBackRest/WAL-G, pgBouncer/PgCat, logical replication tooling * Ability to read EXPLAIN ANALYZE and reason about locks and corruptions * Proven ability to write reliable code and tackle complex problems * Teamwork-oriented mindset Key requirements * Competitive aaaaaaaaa
and * Career growth and learning opportunities * Flexibility and ownership * Collaborative and innovative culture * Impactful AI projects * International environment

## Description

Experteer Overview In this role you help Nebius expand its managed PostgreSQL offering for AI workloads, enabling first-class vector search and smooth migrations from other cloud databases. You will work across the stack, from control plane automation to Postgres internals and performance, with a strong emphasis on reliability and customer impact. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, production-grade features and tooling. This is an opportunity to shape the AI cloud stack at scale, partnering with customers and fellow engineers to solve hard data and performance problems. Compensation / Benefits * Develop control plane and lifecycle automation for Managed PostgreSQL (provisioning, high availability, failover, backups, PITR, upgrades) * Tune and harden PostgreSQL internals (MVCC, WAL, replication, vacuum, planner, extensions) and turn into product features * Build migration tooling to move customers from AWS RDS, Cloud SQL, Azure PostgreSQL and self-managed clusters with minimal downtime * Advance the AI-Postgres story (vector search with pgvector/pgvectorscale, hybrid retrieval) within Nebius AI Cloud * Operate the service as an SRE (define SLOs, observability, incident response, postmortems feedback) * Engage with customers on architecture reviews, performance escalations, and production problems Tasks * 5+ years of professional software engineering with significant PostgreSQL-scale experience (TB+ datasets, replication topologies, known failure modes) * Strong Go backend/systems programming skills * Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL internals (MVCC, WAL, replication, vacuum, query planning, extensions, partitioning) * Hands-on experience with Patroni/Stolon/pg_auto_failover, pgBackRest/WAL-G, pgBouncer/PgCat, logical replication tooling * Ability to read EXPLAIN ANALYZE and reason about locks and corruptions * Proven ability to write reliable code and tackle complex problems * Teamwork-oriented mindset Key requirements * Competitive compensation * Career growth and learning opportunities * Flexibility and ownership * Collaborative and innovative culture * Impactful AI projects * International environment


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