Staff Software Engineer, PostgreSQL

Job description

About the role You'll own Gamma's PostgreSQL infrastructure as we scale from 70 million users to hundreds of millions, and from terabytes of data to hundreds of terabytes. Your job is to make sure our database can handle orders of magnitude more usage without compromising performance. That means architecting horizontal scaling solutions, solving our hardest data challenges, and building the foundation that every feature and every user interaction depends on. This is a deeply technical, hands-on role. You'll read and write code daily, dig into low-level systems, debug complex issues across massive datasets, and work on both core database scaling projects and application features. You'll collaborate closely with backend engineers, data engineers, and infrastructure teams to ensure our database architecture keeps pace with Gamma's growth. Our team has a strong in-office culture and works in person 4–5 days per week in San Francisco. We love working together to stay creative and connected, with flexibility to work from home when focus matters most. What you'll do: Architect and implement solutions for horizontally scaling PostgreSQL to hundreds of millions of users and hundreds of tera...