Format
Remote (United Kingdom)
Our requirements for candidates
•8+ years with PostgreSQL in production: schema design, query optimization, partitioning, replication, and performance tuning under write-heavy, high-throughput workloads
•8+ years building Java Spring Boot services: REST APIs, JDBC, connection pooling, and JVM performance profiling
•Experience with Kafka or equivalent streaming systems: consumer groups, offset management, and partition lag debugging
•Track record operating distributed systems on AWS: microservices, multi-silo deployments, Terraform
•Strong cross-system debugging skills: tracing a serving delay from a Datadog metric to a Humio log to a code path
•Comfort with AI-assisted development and agentic engineering practices
•A bias to ship and iterate alongside product and design partners
•A genuine excitement for significantly scaling large data systems
Tech stack:
•PostgreSQL
•Java Spring
•Kafka
•AWS
•Kubernetes
•Terraform
•Python
•Github including Github Actions
•DataDog
•Humio
•PagerDuty
Will be a plus:
•Database migration experience (evaluating and cutting over between storage systems)
•Flink, Spark, or lakehouse formats (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Parquet)
•Kubernetes operations (StatefulSets, HelmReleases, stateful workloads)
•Mentoring engineers and driving technical decisions through RFCs/ADRs
•Interest in the cryptocurrency
