Senior Backend 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.

We're building a database platform for companies that rely on PostgreSQL at scale. And by “at scale,” we don’t just mean large volumes of data or high server counts, we also mean growing teams and the operational complexity that comes with them: staging and developer branches with data, data anonymization and privacy, zero-downtime schema changes, and more.

In every feature we build, we optimise for developer experience, high performance, and flexibility. This gives our customers the confidence to rely on us for one of the most critical pieces of their cloud infrastructure.

The AI wave of developer tools presents exciting opportunities and challenges - and PostgreSQL and Xata are well-positioned to be at the center of it. We’re a transparent company, maintaining several popular open-source projects, and we enjoy writing technical blog posts about how we solve various challenges.

You will join our backend team, responsible for our database offering and API services.

Our tech stack:

• Golang
• Zig and C (optional, mainly for pgzx or direct Postgres contributions)
• AWS (RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, MSK, etc.)
• Cloudflare
• GitHub Actions
• Kubernetes

In this role, you will:

• Be an active contributor to our core feature set, owning feature development end-to-end, including architecture proposals, implementation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Contribute to our growing set of open-source projects, including pgroll , pgstream , pgzx , and forthcoming initiatives.
• Collaborate in multifunctional project teams (with frontend engineers, design, PM) to create new features or improve existing ones. Optionally lead such projects.
• Participate in on-call rotations to handle and resolve critical issues.

About you:

• You are a self-starter, that can take responsibility.
• Significant experience developing performant systems-level software, preferably in Golang
• Exposure to Infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Github CI/CD, cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Good knowledge of Postgres and experience with various types of databases,
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems

Nice to haves:

• Experience with Cloud services, especially serverless platforms
• Experience working on open-source projects
• BSc/MSc in Computer Science

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.

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 and 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!