Senior Postgres Platform Engineer

Evaluates current database technologies and tools in the industry. Sets database
system administration and programming standards, applies database technology to
business problems, manages development and production database environments with
emphasis on security, availability, and performance. Determines appropriateness
of data for storage and optimum storage organization. Creates sustainable and
maintainable tools to automate database provisioning, patching, monitoring,
metrics, maintenance, and administration.

What you’ll achieve

As a Senior Postgres Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing
and operating production PostgreSQL clusters at scale, building the automation
and platform capabilities that power Dell's Database Platform. You will work
with a global database engineering team to deliver self-healing database
infrastructure using Ansible, pgVector, Kubernetes and agentic coding patterns.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as




a Senior Postgres Platform Engineer on our Database Platform team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will:

* Design and operate PostgreSQL clusters at scale - replication, partitioning,
connection pooling, VACUUM tuning, WAL management - for a fleet supporting
billions of transactions monthly
* Deploy and manage PostgreSQL on Kubernetes using operators (CloudNativePG,
Patroni) with automated failover, persistent storage optimization, and pod
disruption budgets
* Build Ansible-based automation for provisioning, patching, upgrades and
disaster recovery
* Optimize pgVector workloads - IVFFlat/HNSW index tuning, dimensionality
planning, ANN search performance - for AI/ML embedding pipelines
* Mentor engineers on Postgres internals and operational best practices

QUALIFICATIONS

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📌 Senior Postgres Platform Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Dell Technologies
📍 Hyderabad