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Software Engineer/C Developer-PGD
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WorldwideremotePosted today
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- 100% remote position
- 5+ years of experience required
- Strong proficiency in C programming required
- Experience with PostgreSQL internals required
- Knowledge of distributed systems concepts required
- Wellness Fridays benefit available
Role overview
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. 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. The ideal candidate will work directly on PGD’s architecture design, development, testing, and documentation of new and existing capabilities with EDB’s quality standards.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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
Nice to have
- 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
Benefits
- Access to CuraLinc to aid employees in health and wellness tips and practices
- Wellness Fridays extending to December 2026
Additional details
- This position is 100% remote
- EDB is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
- Originally posted on Himalayas
- 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.