Senior Test Tooling Engineer

• Tiger Data is seeking a passionate Senior Test Tooling Engineer to elevate our release infrastructure and processes across our core products: TimescaleDB, Toolkit, Data Tiering, and Tiger Lake
• In this high-impact role, you’ll drive the transformation of our CI/CD pipelines and release workflows, automating operations and building robust testing and benchmarking systems to ensure world-class product quality at scale
• Drive and evolve CI/CD infrastructure for TimescaleDB, Toolkit, Data Tiering, and Tiger Lake, utilizing GitHub Actions
• Own the end-to-end release process, focusing on automation so that releases become seamless and effortless for the team
• Lead the packaging process and collaborate with the platform team to ensure a smooth, efficient workflow
• Design and implement stress testing infrastructure from the ground up. Execute stress tests, analyze results, and feed regression signals back to engineering partners
• Build and maintain comprehensive testing infrastructure to validate TimescaleDB’s performance and compatibility in cloud environments
• Take ownership of benchmarking frameworks (including tsbench), elevating their capabilities with advanced features (e.g., explain plans), and ensuring reliable, sophisticated measurement
• What Success Looks Like:
• Comprehensive and reliable test coverage enables the team to deploy with confidence
• Regressions are detected early through robust stress testing and benchmarking
• Clear, actionable metrics and signals support continuous improvement
• Established, close collaboration with the platform team to deliver high quality releases efficiently and smoothly

Benefits

• Flexible PTO & family leave
• Professional development & educational benefits
• Summer Fridays off in August
• FSA/Dependent FSA plans
• Fully remote work from anywhere
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Stock options
• Premium insurance options for you and your family
• Monthly WiFi stipend

• Proven experience as a Senior Release Engineer, QA Lead, or similar role with end-to-end release process ownership
• Hands-on experience running PostgreSQL in production environments
• We don’t require previous experience with our tech stack, but enthusiasm for learning is key. Our technologies include PostgreSQL, Tiger Cloud, AWS, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, and innovative features like Hypertables, Hypercore, vector search, and real-time analytics
• Strong Python skills for automation, tooling, and infrastructure
• Deep expertise in modern CI/CD practices and tools, especially GitHub Actions
• Basic knowledge of Kubernetes
• Prior experience with TimescaleDB