ParadeDB · San Francisco, CA, United States
Join ParadeDB, a Series A startup building a Postgres-native alternative to Elasticsearch, to architect and build a cloud-native control plane for ParadeDB Cloud. You’ll design Kubernetes operators, automation systems, and APIs that power scalable, transactional search and analytics for enterprise customers. This is a chance to shape the future of Postgres-based infrastructure with autonomy and impact.
About the Role
ParadeDB is a small, distributed team of engineers building a next-generation Postgres extension that delivers full-text, vector, and hybrid search with transactional guarantees. We’re a Series A company with a flat structure, strong investor backing, and a mission to unify search and transactional data for agentic workloads. We’re looking for a distributed systems engineer to join our core team and help build ParadeDB Cloud — our managed database platform built on Kubernetes and CloudNativePG.
What You Will Do
Design and contribute to building the ParadeDB Cloud control plane
Design and implement Kubernetes controllers and operators for provisioning, operating, upgrading, and scaling ParadeDB clusters
Build automation around backups, replication, failover, maintenance operations, monitoring, and lifecycle management
Develop APIs, cloud integrations, and orchestration systems that power the ParadeDB Cloud platform
Work closely with CloudNativePG and the broader Postgres ecosystem, contributing upstream when required
Develop deployment, monitoring, and testing infrastructure around ParadeDB Cloud and the ParadeDB database product
Engage directly with customers to understand their requirements and help shape the product roadmap
Develop and maintain documentation, including API references and user guides
Contribute to technical writing, product demos, and content marketing
Help shape ParadeDB's product roadmap and technical direction
What We Are Looking For
Meaningful experience building distributed systems, cloud platforms, Kubernetes operators/controllers, or similarly complex infrastructure software
A solid understanding of Kubernetes internals, including reconciliation loops, controllers, CRDs, and cloud-native architecture
Experience designing and building APIs, control planes, orchestration systems, or automation frameworks that manage stateful infrastructure
Experience developing production software in Go and operating reliable production systems on Kubernetes
Familiarity with infrastructure tooling such as Terraform, Helm, and Bash/Python
Experience with CloudNativePG, database operators, database-as-a-service platforms, or other stateful systems (preferred)
Familiarity with Elasticsearch-type workloads, analytical databases, or high-performance data systems (preferred)
Contributions to high-quality open-source projects and prior experience at a small, high-performing startup (preferred)
If you’re passionate about distributed systems, databases, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure — and you want to build a world-class platform from the ground up — this is your opportunity. You’ll have autonomy, direct customer impact, and the chance to shape a sustainable open-source business. Apply now to join our core team.