Staff Datastore Platform Engineer

Lead PostgreSQL and ClickHouse strategy at Nue.Io while shaping reliable, scalable data infrastructure for 10x growth across Canada’s remote-hybrid team.As Staff Engineer, Datastores, you will direct the polyglot data layer spanning transactional, analytical, caching, and streaming systems. You will own technical direction, reliability, performance, cost, and architecture across production datastores. The role combines hands-on engineering with company-wide standards, migrations, observability, and incident leadership.Key Responsibilities:
Set multi-year strategy across PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, caching, and streamingOwn datastore reliability, availability, performance, cost, SLOs, and operationsDeliver scale-out architecture supporting tenfold customer growthLead managed PostgreSQL migration with zero data lossEstablish resilient schemas, observability, delivery, and recovery practicesRequirements:
Ten-plus years in backend, infrastructure, or data platform engineeringFive-plus years owning production databases at SaaS scaleExpert PostgreSQL internals, optimization, indexing, partitioning, and replicationHands-on columnar or OLAP datastore experienceExperience with AWS managed databases and horizontally scaled architecturesBring Staff-level leadership, PostgreSQL expertise, and operational ownership to Nue.Io’s evolving datastore platform.
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