# Postgres Database Engineer

## Details

- **Company:** [Dell](https://hitmarker.net/companies/dell.md)
- **Location:** Austin, Texas, USA
- **Contract type:** Full Time
- **Level:** Senior \(5+ years\)
- **Tags:** Information Technology \(IT\), Cloud Engineering, Backend Development, Systems Design
- **Posted:** 2026-08-26
- **Apply:** [View and apply on Hitmarker](https://hitmarker.net/jobs/dell-postgres-database-engineer-4620183)

## Description

**Postgres Database Engineer**

The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation software application enhancements and new products for a changing world. Working at the cutting edge, we design and develop software for platforms, peripherals, applications and diagnostics — all with the most advanced technologies, tools, software engineering methodologies and the collaboration of internal and external partners.

**Join us** to do the best work of your career and make a profound impact as **Postgres Database Engineer** on our growing and dynamic team in **Round Rock, Texas.**

**What you’ll achieve**

As a Postgres Database Engineer, you will architect Dell's global PostgreSQL platform strategy and build the autonomous tooling that enables self-healing database operations across thousands of instances. You will work with global database engineering pods to define Kubernetes-native deployment standards, mentor database engineers, and represent Postgres platform requirements in executive planning and vendor negotiations.

**You will:**

- Architect and lead PostgreSQL platform strategy across Dell's global fleet - HA design, disaster recovery, security hardening, and performance baselines for thousands of instances
- Design and implement Postgres-on-Kubernetes at scale using operators (CloudNativePG/Patroni), storage architecture, multi-region failover, and observability integration
- Build agentic/autonomous tooling for self-healing failover, automated VACUUM/analyze scheduling, and predictive capacity alerts using LLM-augmented logic
- Author Infrastructure-as-Code modules (Ansible)
- Mentor engineers through weekly architecture reviews and represent Postgres requirements planning and vendor negotiations

**Take the first step towards your dream career**
Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here’s what we are looking for with this role:

**Essential Requirements**

- 10–14 years of IT infrastructure or platform engineering experience, or 7+ years with exceptional depth demonstrated through production scale, open-source contributions, or published work
- 6+ years of production PostgreSQL at scale - partitioning, logical replication, connection pooling (PgBouncer), WAL tuning, Patroni, pgBackRest
- 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, Go, or Bash - authoring infrastructure, not just using playbooks
- Proven track record of designing and developing Database as a service

**Desirable Requirements**

- 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
- Contributions to PostgreSQL ecosystem open-source projects (patches, extensions, operators, or tooling)