Database Engineer - PostgreSQL Engine

About the role

SKAI Worldwide is a data and AI infrastructure company with 13 years of database technology behind it. Its database team builds and maintains PostgreSQL-based database engines used by open-source users and enterprise customers. As a Database Engineer, you will contribute to the core engine and its ecosystem.

Key responsibilities

• Develop new query language features in the engine
• Work across the database engine: parser, planner, executor and storage
• Ensure correctness and reliability: write paths, security features, backup and restore, regression testing
• Keep the engine up to date with PostgreSQL upstream releases
• Build drivers, integrations and deployment tooling around the engine

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Solid understanding of database internals: query processing, indexes, transactions and concurrency control
• Comfortable working in a large, mature codebase
• Enjoys chasing down hard bugs and learning from unfamiliar code, papers and problems

Required skills

• Strong C
• Nice to have: experience with graph databases or graph query languages such as OpenCypher or ISO GQL
• Nice to have: systems programming experience (databases, compilers, OS)
• Nice to have: open-source contributions you can point to