KDCIFounding Engineer
Worldwidevia Himalayas · 5h ago
enterprisedbSoftware Engineer/C Developer-PGD
Posted · via Himalayas
Open worldwide, Nigeria included. No country restriction on this role.
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First seen today on enterprisedb’s site
- Where it can be done from
- WorldwidePosting says: “Remote - Worldwide”
- Working hours in Lagos
- No hours requirement stated
- Pay
- Not posted
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- Location
- Remote - Worldwide
- Salary
- Not listed
- Type
- Full time
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Engineering
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- Himalayas
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
**Candidate Note: This position is 100% remote
We are seeking a highly skilled PGD Developer to design, implement, and maintain the EDB Postgres Distributed (PGD) product, a multi-master distributed PostgreSQL solution that provides high availability, geographic distribution, and active-active replication for enterprise workloads.
As a member of the team, you will work directly on PGD’s architecture design, development, testing, and documentation of new and existing capabilities with EDB’s quality standards.
What you’ll be doing:
- Design, develop, test, and document new PGD capabilities
- Maintain and improve the performance and usability of existing PGD capabilities
- Analyze business requirements and translate them into executable tasks
- Provide world-class production support to EDB’s PGD customers
- Participate in code reviews and collaborate with a globally distributed team
What you will bring:
- 5+ years of experience in a software engineering position
- Strong proficiency in C programming
- Experience with PostgreSQL internals (storage engine, WAL, replication, catalog system, or extension development)
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts: replication topologies, consensus, conflict resolution, eventual consistency, and failure modes
- Experience working on multi-version/multi-branch codebases with active backporting workflows
- Familiarity with build systems and CI/CD practices
- Comfort working with Git on a large, long-lived codebase with complex branching
- Strong debugging and performance analysis skills
What will set you apart:
- Prior contributions to PostgreSQL or other open-source database projects
- Experience with logical replication, logical decoding, or custom replication solutions
- Knowledge of distributed consensus algorithms (Raft)
- Familiarity with the PostgreSQL extension API and hook system
- Experience with high availability architectures and failover mechanisms
- Experience with Python and Rust
- Experience with the major Cloud Providers: AWS, Azure, GCP
- Experience with Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes
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 2026! 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.
Originally posted on Himalayas
