[Hiring] Software Engineer @EDB

Role Description

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.

As a member of the team, you will work directly on PGD’s architecture design, development, testing, and documentation of new and existing capabilities with EDB’s quality standards.

What you’ll be doing:

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Requirements

• 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 for health and wellness tips and practices
• Wellness Fridays extending to December 2026