Staff Datastore Platform Engineer

1 day ago

Toronto, Ontario, 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.