Senior QA Engineer - Database

Engineering

At Timescale, we empower businesses with real-time insights from their data, allowing them to make faster decisions and optimize operations. We are creating a movement to unblock developers who are building the future. Timescale is a product-led growth organization driven by transparent leaders and a globally diverse, remote-first team that is proudly building a modern PostgreSQL cloud platform.

What you will be responsible for:

  • Test Automation & Execution: Take ownership of developing and maintaining automated test suites for database features, query execution, and performance benchmarks.

  • Collaboration: Be part of the database team and advocate for best practices in delivering high-quality software products. 

  • Performance & Scalability Testing: Assess database performance under various workloads, ensuring scalability and efficiency.

  • Regression & Compatibility Testing: Validate backward compatibility and ensure new changes do not break existing functionality for Timescale Cloud and on-prem deployments.

  • Security & Compliance Testing: Identify vulnerabilities, enforce access controls, and verify compliance with security best practices.

You’d be a great fit if you have:

  • Strong SQL Knowledge: Deep understanding of SQL, query optimization, and preferably PostgreSQL internals, including indexes, transactions, and extensions.

  • Experience with Database Testing: Ability to test database extensions, ensuring correctness, performance, and stability under different workloads.

  • Automation & Scripting Skills: Proficiency in writing automated tests using frameworks like pgTAP, pytest, or custom scripts in Python, Bash, or SQL.

  • Performance & Benchmarking Expertise: Familiarity with tools like pgbench to assess extension performance, scalability, and impact on PostgreSQL.

  • Familiarity with CI/CD for Databases: Experience integrating automated database testing into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).

  • Debugging & Log Analysis Skills: Ability to analyze PostgreSQL logs, crash dumps, and query plans to identify performance bottlenecks and issues.

Nice to Have:

  • You have experience with TimescaleDB

  • Knowledge of PostgreSQL Extension Ecosystem

  • Understanding of PostgreSQL internals and ability to debug or review extension code written in C.

  • Active participation in PostgreSQL or extension-related open-source projects.

  • Basic knowledge of Kubernetes

Our Commitment:

  • We will respond to all applicants

  • We strive to review all applications fairly, without bias, and shortlist based on relevant skills and experience.

  • All active candidates will be informed of what is happening next in the process.

About Timescale🐯

Timescale is the creator of TimescaleDB and PGVectorscale, trusted by tens of thousands of organizations for their mission-critical time-series applications. We're committed to empowering developers and businesses worldwide, helping them build data-driven products that measure everything that matters—from software applications and industrial equipment to financial markets, blockchain activity, consumer behavior, machine learning models, and climate change.

By analyzing data across time (“time-series data”), developers gain insights into what’s happening, how it’s changing, and why. With a global, fully remote workforce, Timescale is supported by top investors, including Tiger Global, Benchmark Capital, NEA, Redpoint Ventures, Icon Ventures, and Two Sigma Ventures.

Enjoy debating the crunch-factor of different chicken nuggets 🍗, sweating it out during lunch 💦, talking about your kids, whether they be actual children 👶🏽, potted plants 🌱, or four-legged creatures 🐾? You’ll fit right in at Timescale!

Our Tech stack: 

We share our tech stack with the caveat that we don’t require previous experience in it (but a love of these languages is helpful): Timescale's tech stack includes TimescaleDB, built on PostgreSQL, along with AWS, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, and Python for scalable time-series data management.

To learn more, visit www.timescale.com or follow us on Twitter @TimescaleDB.

What we’re offering

Benefits may differ from country to country.

  • Flexible PTO and family leave

  • Fridays off in August 😎

  • Full remote work from almost anywhere

  • Stock options

  • Monthly WiFi stipend

  • Professional development and educational benefits 📚

  • Premium insurance options for you and your family (US employees)

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