Staff Software Engineer - PostgreSQL
Staff Software Engineer - PostgreSQL
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Job Description
The Database Monitoring team at Datadog is building an industryrevolutionizing product to automatically pinpoint our customers database problems and proactively improve query performance. Join a successful product team transforming the way our industry operates data stores. Some examples of projects you will execute on include:
- Author Postgres extensions for increased performance visibility (e.g. pgtracing
- Identify and contribute core changes to Postgres relating to the query protocol pgstat* views and more
- Develop heuristics and automated recommendations for customers workloads such as optimal autovacuum settings and GUC parameter tuning
- Build observability telemetry into clientside language drivers (e.g. JDBC) and connection pools
- Lead development of greenfield tooling for the Postgres ecosystem from the ground up
What Youll Do:
- Design and drive highpriority highvisibility projects like the ones described above
- Provide technical leadership to the Database Monitoring team and peer teams
- Be a driving force in growing the products adoption by 10X
- Define enduring architectures to support a rapidly growing team and user base
Who You Are:
- You have strong familiarity with Postgres internals
- You have contributed directly to Postgres in the past and/or have substantial contributions to tooling in the relational database ecosystem
- You are excited about the opportunity to work with customers directly understand their workflows and build industryleading experiences for them
- You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance cost efficiency ease of use and resilience/operability are firstorder concerns
If these sound exciting to you lets talk!
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
