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PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring

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Why This Matters

PgDog, a rapidly growing startup focused on scaling PostgreSQL, is hiring versatile engineers to develop innovative features that directly impact its global customer base. This hiring effort highlights the ongoing demand for advanced database solutions and the importance of continuous innovation in the tech industry. The company's focus on real-world deployment and scalable architecture underscores the critical need for reliable, high-performance database systems for modern applications.

Key Takeaways

Hey! PgDog is a tiny database startup, based out of SF, with a global team. We’re scaling the world’s most popular database, PostgreSQL. PgDog is in production, used by dozens of companies, large and small. The problem is big, but so is the opportunity, and we’re hiring!

About the role

The jack of all trades. Rust, Postgres, a bit of infrastructure, networking, distributed systems, and so much more. You’ll build features that will go directly into our customers hands, the day you ship them.

With great power comes great responsibility. You’re meticulous, detail-oriented and are not afraid to take calculated risks. You write tests because you want to make sure the thing works, not to check a box. You’re not afraid to run code in production, on real data; after all, that’s the only way to know something really works.

Also, pretty important these days: you don’t let AI do the thinking for you; you’re comfortable with and without it.

First week

You’ll fix a bug or ship a cool feature. We’ll give it to one of our users or customers to try right away.

First month

You’ll get acquainted with pretty much all of our code. You’ll start coming up with your own bug fixes and features.

Three months later

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