About the role
What we do
ParadeDB is a Postgres-native alternative to Elasticsearch. We build state-of-the-art search (full-text, vector, and hybrid) and columnar analytics as a Postgres extension.
Companies like Modern Treasury, BILT Rewards, Alibaba Cloud, and many others use ParadeDB to:
- Eliminate ETL/change data capture tools
- Add transactional guarantees to their search indexes
- Perform JOINs on their search data
- Unify their search & transactional stack for agentic workloads
We're a small, focused team of engineers dedicated to creating an inclusive and enjoyable work environment. We’re primarily distributed across the United States and Canada, with a small office in San Francisco. We’re a Series A company with a flat structure, strong backing from investors, and plenty of room for growth.
What we want
We’re looking for a distributed systems engineer to join our team full-time and help build ParadeDB Cloud.
ParadeDB Cloud is our managed database platform built on Kubernetes and CloudNativePG. We're building a cloud-native control plane and Kubernetes operators that make it easy for customers to deploy and operate ParadeDB at scale.
The ideal candidate should have:
- Meaningful experience building distributed systems, cloud platforms, Kubernetes operators/controllers, or similarly complex infrastructure software
- A solid understanding of Kubernetes internals, including reconciliation loops, controllers, CRDs, and cloud-native architecture
- Experience designing and building APIs, control planes, orchestration systems, or automation frameworks that manage stateful infrastructure
- Experience developing production software in Go and operating reliable production systems on Kubernetes
- Familiarity with infrastructure tooling such as Terraform, Helm, and Bash/Python
