Lead Software Engineer, TimescaleDB Enterprise

Tiger Data, formerly Timescale, empowers developers and businesses with the fastest PostgreSQL platform designed for various workloads. As a Lead Software Engineer for TimescaleDB Enterprise, you will be responsible for building and shaping the on-prem enterprise platform, collaborating with customers and internal teams to develop scalable solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Leading the design and development of TimescaleDB Enterprise, our on-prem deployment and management platform for TimescaleDB
• Building and evolving core product capabilities, including: management consoles, deployment workflows, operational tooling, configuration management, and customer administration experiences
• Owning technical decisions across the product lifecycle, balancing speed, scalability, maintainability, and customer experience
• Working directly with enterprise customers and prospects to understand operational requirements and translate them into pragmatic product solutions
• Driving new feature development while continuously improving reliability, usability, and operational simplicity
• Partnering closely with Platform Engineering and cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Support, and Sales Engineering
• Helping shape the long-term product and technical direction of the Enterprise platform
• Operating effectively in ambiguous environments where priorities evolve quickly and engineers are expected to drive clarity
• Leveraging AI tools daily to accelerate development, debugging, documentation, and product iteration workflows

Requirements:

• Experience building developer platforms, enterprise software, infrastructure products, operational tooling, or database-adjacent systems
• Comfort working across multiple layers of a system, from backend services to operational workflows and user-facing tooling
• Strong familiarity and proficiency with AI coding tools
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, distributed systems, deployment automation, or enterprise operational environments is highly valuable
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers or highly technical users is a strong plus