Hybrid Data Infrastructure Engineer – PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB

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About the role

  • You are responsible for schema design, operation, performance tuning and HA/backup of our PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB instances.
  • You build and operate the central data platform for our IoT time-series data — robust, scalable and audit-ready.
  • You optimize SQL workloads.
  • You set up monitoring & runbooks (Prometheus/Grafana) and automate deployments & maintenance with Ansible/Docker/GitLab CI/CD on Linux hosts.

Requirements

  • Several years of hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and ideally TimescaleDB (time-series): hypertables/partitioning, continuous aggregates, retention policies, materialized views, triggers/background jobs.
  • Strong skills in schema design & performance: normalization/denormalization, index strategies (BTREE/GIN/BRIN), EXPLAIN/ANALYZE, planner tuning.
  • Operations & HA/Recovery: replication/hot-standby & failover, backup/restore including WAL/PITR and regular restore drills; monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana.
  • Security & governance: role/permission management (least-privilege), TLS/certificates, traceable access (audit trails), clear runbooks/incidents.
  • Automation & ops: Python, Ansible, Docker, GitLab CI/CD; Linux hosts on dedicated servers (e.g., Hetzner/OVH).
  • Very good German language skills (C1) for team communication & documentation; English is an advantage.

Benefits

  • Budget for learning and professional development
  • Good equipment
  • Transparency
  • Collegial working atmosphere
  • Flexible working arrangements

Job title

Data Infrastructure Engineer – PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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