Staff Datastore Platform Engineer

2 days ago

Toronto, ON, Canada Nue Full-time
Lead Nue's datastore platform with PostgreSQL and ClickHouse expertise across a flexible remote or hybrid arrangement within Canada. Shape reliable, scalable data systems for company-wide use. As Staff Engineer, Datastores, you will set technical direction across Nue's polyglot data layer. The work spans PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, caching, streaming, AWS managed databases, and multi-tenant architecture. You will guide engineering teams while remaining hands-on with complex reliability, performance, migration, and scaling challenges. Key Responsibilities:

Set strategy and roadmap for PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, caching, and streaming Own datastore reliability, availability, performance, cost, SLOs, and operations Deliver scale-out architecture supporting tenfold customer growth Lead managed PostgreSQL migrations with zero data loss Establish resilient schemas, observability, security, and delivery standards Requirements:

Ten-plus years in backend, infrastructure, or data platform engineering Five-plus years owning production databases at SaaS scale Expert PostgreSQL knowledge, including internals, optimization, and replication Hands-on columnar or OLAP datastore experience, ideally ClickHouse Experience with multi-tenant scaling, migrations, AWS, and observability Bring Staff-level leadership and hands-on PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and platform engineering expertise to Nue's evolving datastore function.