About the role
Hey! PgDog is a tiny database startup, based out of SF, with a global team. We’re scaling the world’s most popular database, PostgreSQL. PgDog is in production, used by dozens of companies, large and small. The problem is big, but so is the opportunity, and we’re hiring!
About the role
The jack of all trades. Rust, Postgres, a bit of infrastructure, networking, distributed systems, and so much more. You’ll build features that will go directly into our customers hands, the day you ship them.
With great power comes great responsibility. You’re meticulous, detail-oriented and are not afraid to take calculated risks. You write tests because you want to make sure the thing works, not to check a box. You’re not afraid to run code in production, on real data; after all, that’s the only way to know something really works.
Also, pretty important these days: you don’t let AI do the thinking for you; you’re comfortable with and without it.
First week
You’ll fix a bug or ship a cool feature. We’ll give it to one of our users or customers to try right away.
First month
You’ll get acquainted with pretty much all of our code. You’ll start coming up with your own bug fixes and features.
Three months later
You’re designing our roadmap. You’re contributing to everything we’re doing: coding, talking with customers, and even finding us more! Things we badly want to build:
- Advanced OLAP query engine. People don’t like to rewrite their queries, so let’s make them just work with sharded Postgres! If you’re wondering how much work that is, check out the Postgres SQL reference. All of it has to work!
- In-place data redistribution: let’s make Postgres scale like Cassandra/Elastic. Having the ability to dynamically shard would be super cool and make it a push-button op.
If any of this sounds super hard…well, that’s because it is, but only on the surface. We’re splitting this up into small, achievable tasks, and shipping them straight to prod!
