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Posted 27 Aug 2026

System Engineer

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Employment
Full time
Team
Software Engineering
Posted
27 Aug 2026

About the role

Requirements:

  • More than 5 years of experience developing/testing/deploying secure, production-quality software products.
  • Expert-level programming (C++/Java) is required with a demonstrated ability to solve complex problems.
  • Prior experience building distributed systems at internet scale.
  • Deep expertise in PostgreSQL internals: storage/buffer manager, WAL, MVCC, lock manager, query planner/executor.
  • Alternatively, deep expertise in streaming processing (Flink, Kafka, and Message product) is also OK.
  • Strong transaction management background: isolation levels, concurrency control, deadlock detection, crash recovery, physical/logical replication, and HA/failover strategies.
  • Experience in performance engineering: profiling (perf, gdb, flamegraphs); benchmarking (pgbench);
  • Autovacuum tuning, index/statistics optimisation, and I/O/memory optimisation for large-scale workloads are preferred.
  • Technical leadership experience in guiding teams and making architectural decisions.
  • A bachelor's in computer science or equivalent is required.
  • Demonstrated experience in leading critical projects to production.

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