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About the role

Tiger Data, formerly Timescale, empowers developers and businesses with the fastest PostgreSQL platform designed for transactional, analytical, and agentic workloads. We are a globally distributed, remote-first team committed to direct communication, accountability, and collaborative excellence.

Tiger Data is seeking a Senior Test Tooling Engineer to elevate release infrastructure and processes across TimescaleDB, Toolkit, Data Tiering, and Tiger Lake. You’ll transform CI/CD pipelines and release workflows, automate operations, and build robust testing and benchmarking systems to ensure product quality at scale.

What you'll do

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 such as explain plans and ensuring reliable, sophisticated measurement.
Ensure comprehensive and reliable test coverage enables the team to deploy with confidence.
Detect regressions early through robust stress testing and benchmarking.
Provide clear, actionable metrics and signals to support continuous improvement.

What they're looking for

Proven experience as a Senior Release Engineer, QA Lead, or similar role with end-to-end release process ownership.
Deep expertise in modern CI/CD practices and tools, especially GitHub Actions.
Strong Python skills for automation, tooling, and infrastructure.
Hands-on experience running PostgreSQL in production environments.
Enthusiasm for learning; previous experience with our tech stack is not required.

Nice to have

Prior experience with TimescaleDB.
Basic knowledge of Kubernetes.

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Tiger Data benefits

Work from anywhereFlexible working hoursComprehensive benefitsRetirementEquity in companyPaid learning stipends

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