Data API Engineer

Description

The company builds the company, a Postgres development platform for developers, offering Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime and Vector Search as one integrated backend.

You will join the Data API Team to improve the features, reliability and performance of the Data API, which is built on the PostgREST project.

The company is about 400 people across more than 60 countries, speaking over 20 languages, with over $1B raised, including a $500M Series F, and a community of 540,000+ members.

The team is born-remote and open-source-first, and it ships quickly, builds in public and uses its own tools, supporting existing open-source tools and communities rather than replacing them.

Responsibilities

• Work on the PostgreSQL driver used by PostgREST, which is based on Hasql, to remove bottlenecks and improve its speed.
• Build new PostgREST features and fix bugs with the goal of a multitenant Data API.
• Handle incidents and escalated support issues, and improve observability and performance along the way.
• Work with other teams to debug and resolve integration issues across the company platform.

Requirements

• Strong Haskell skills, with at least 3 years of experience.
• Experience writing C.
• Solid knowledge of SQL and plpgsql in PostgreSQL.
• A strong record of contributing to and engaging with open-source projects.
• Strong experience giving technical support to users with different levels of expertise.
• Experience debugging applications on Linux.
• Optional: maintaining an open-source project is a bonus.

Conditions

Fully remote, with hiring open globally. There are no offices.

The role runs asynchronously, and you manage your own time.

Equal-opportunity statement: no further detail in the posting.

Benefits

• A WeWork membership or co-working allowance usable anywhere in the world.
• ESOP equity ownership in the company for every team member.
• A tech allowance to spend on your work setup, such as a laptop, monitor or headphones.
• Health insurance covering 100% of the employee's cost and 80% for dependents, wherever you live.
• An annual company off-site in a new city, lasting a week.
• An annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences or other learning.