Location: Remote from east coast USA and Canada
About Xata
Xata is the modern Postgres platform that helps engineering teams ship faster with instant database branches, anonymized production-like data, and zero-downtime schema changes.
We connect directly to your existing Postgres, whether it’s RDS, Aurora, CloudSQL, Azure Database, or self-hosted and bring a realistic, production-like development workflow to every pull request.
We’re a Series A, fully remote team across Europe and the US (around 25 people). Our customers use Xata to eliminate staging pain, speed up development, and make Postgres scalable for AI-era applications.
In this role, you will:
- Work closely with the other engineering teams to build services that are highly scalable and observable.
- Set up infrastructure and configuration as code. We use Kubernetes, and Pulumi 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.
- Knowledge of distributed storage systems and their operational considerations, preferably Ceph, OpenEBS, Mayastor, or similar cloud-native storage solutions.
You will have:
- Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience on public cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
- Good understanding of PostgreSQL.
- Experience with Kubernetes, preferably using Kubernetes operators and running Postgres in Kubernetes.
- Experience with infrastructure as code.
- Hands-on experience coding, ideally in Python, Go or Typescript with a focus on clean, maintainable 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.
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.
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.
