Lead Platform Engineer

Location: Remote from Europe

Our mission:

At Xata we’re on a mission to radically simplify the way developers work with data with our Postgres database platform.

We make managing database infrastructure easy giving developers all the functionality their application needs to evolve at scale.What we’re building at Xata:

Modern applications are complex. We are building a Postgres Database Platform that augments PostgreSQL with the functionality modern applications need at scale.

In every feature we build, we optimize for developer experience that will ultimately reduce our customers time to market or dramatically simplify hard architectural problems at scale. Our application is highly intuitive and is great for data collaboration with the entire team.

In this role, you will:

• Work closely with the other engineering teams to architect services that are highly scalable and observable.
• Set up infrastructure and configuration as code. We use Kubernetes, and Pulumi (using Go) and Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Implement automation tools and frameworks for automatic code deployment (CI/CD).
• Set up and maintain observability and monitoring stack, as well as our deployment pipelines.
• Be part of the on-call rotation. The on-call load is shared between the SRE and the backend team.
• Share your experience at conferences or blog posts if interested.
  
  

You will have:

• Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience on public cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Experience with Good knowledge of Postgres
• Experience with Kubernetes, preferably using Kubernetes operators and running Postgres in Kubernetes
• Experience with infrastructure as code.
• Experience with observability tools and incident management.
  
  

Nice to haves:

• Deep experience with operating database products at scale.
  
  

Working at Xata:

• We’re stable. We raised $35M and have years of runway.
• We're remote first and have more than 10 years of experience leading distributed teams at Elastic. Our team is distributed around the world, mainly in Europe and the east coast of the USA.
• Be part of a healthy culture, a culture that truly thrives innovation, a culture that empowers people and cares about the team members
• We work asynchronously. We don’t do agile, the team meets weekly to check-in and then we use Github, Notion and Slack.
• You'll have autonomy, lead features or projects, and bring ideas to the table.
• We are community-driven and deeply care about the success of our users and customers.
• Our team is diverse with over 40% women.
• Xata is female-founded and the first developer platform to have an all-female board of directors.
• We incentivize Conference meet-ups
  
  

What we offer all of our employees:

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Friendly, diverse and inclusive work environment.
• 30 vacation days (not including local public holidays).
• 2 months full paid parental leave.
• Flexibility, autonomy and impact.
• Home office set-up budget + co-working space stipend.
• We support continuous learning with budgets for conferences, courses and books.
• Healthcare.
• 2 company offsites per year, with partners and kids welcome as well. So far we’ve been to Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal. Join our next one in Iceland!
• Ample opportunity and support for career development and impact, there are no boundaries to your growth here at Xata.
  
  

Our investors:

Xata is well-financed by amazing investors, including Guillermo Rauch (founder of Vercel), Shay Banon (co-founder and CEO of Elastic), Neha Narkhede (founder of Confluent), Elad Gil, Christian Bach, and Mathias Biilmann (founders of Netlify), and many others.

We raised a $30 million Series A from top investors (Index Ventures and Redpoint), having the first ever 100% female board for such a technical company.

We care about diversity in tech:

If you come from an underrepresented background in tech, we strongly encourage you to apply. We strongly believe that our success is driven by the talented and diverse team brought together from a variety of backgrounds, cultures and countries. We are always challenging ourselves to build an inclusive culture that allows us to build innovative and successful products.

Our founder, Monica Sarbu, has also founded a non-profit organisation called Tupu that helps tech companies support diversity in tech through mentorship.

We're eager to hear from you and if you decide to apply, we're rooting for you!