Senior Infrastructure Engineer, PostgreSQL

📋 Job Overview

Laravel is looking for our first dedicated Senior Infrastructure Engineer, PostgreSQL to join our all-remote Laravel Cloud infrastructure team. For this role we're only considering applications in the EU and Eastern US timezones. We're on a mission to improve the experience of developers everywhere in the world. We need a solid infrastructure foundation to build beautiful software products and keep our users front and center.

🏢 About Laravel

Laravel is a world-class team that touches the developer experience of hundreds of thousands of developers around the world. We work on ambitious projects like the recently announced Laravel Cloud platform and value the collaborative process.

🎯 The Role

You will be the person who takes our PostgreSQL offering from \"it works\" to \"it's excellent\". You'll use Kubernetes, AWS, and Go to build and operate highly available cloud infrastructure on our Laravel Cloud platform. This is a build-it-from-the-ground-up role with real latitude to decide what excellence means.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Deploy, manage, and optimize PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes, owning high availability, performance, backups, and disaster recovery.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance Kubernetes operators and controllers in Go to automate database and platform operations.
• Design, build, and operate highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS across multiple accounts and regions.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, and automate operational workflows.
• Improve reliability, scalability, and security through monitoring, observability, and proactive capacity planning.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer experience, CI/CD pipelines, and platform automation.
• Define and promote best practices for database operations, and mentor engineers as our PostgreSQL expertise grows.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software, platform, or infrastructure engineering, preferably working closely with large scale production systems.
• Deep expertise with PostgreSQL in production: performance tuning, replication, backups and recovery, high availability, major version upgrades, and troubleshooting under pressure.
• Mastery of AWS (or GCP), designing, deploying, and operating production cloud infrastructure.
• Preferably, you have worked in large AWS environments, dealing with customer data in multi-account setups spread across multiple regions.
• Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) and container orchestration, including production cluster operations, stateful workloads, storage, networking, RBAC, cluster upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Strong proficiency in Go, with experience building and maintaining K8s operators and controllers using tools such as Kubebuilder, controller-runtime, and the Operator SDK.
• Strong Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals - network protocols, load balancing, caching, and DNS management.
• Experienced and comfortable with using IaC in a team.

🎁 Benefits

Flexible hours and minimum bureaucracy, allowing you the freedom to get your best work done whichever way you prefer. We pride ourselves in documenting for ourselves and for our users.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

For this role we're only considering applications in the EU and Eastern US timezones.