Senior Backend Engineer (EU/US/Canada Remote)

Location: Remote from East Coast USA or Europe

About Xata

Xata is the modern Postgres platform that helps engineering teams ship faster with instant database branches, anonymized production‑like data, and zero‑downtime schema changes. We connect directly to your existing Postgres, whether it’s RDS, Aurora, CloudSQL, Azure Database, or self‑hosted, and bring a realistic, production‑like development workflow to every pull request. We’re a Series‑A, fully remote team across Europe and the US (around 25 people). Our customers use Xata to eliminate staging pain, speed up development, and make Postgres scalable for AI‑era applications.

Responsibilities

You will join our backend team, responsible for our database offering and API services.

• Be an active contributor to our core feature set, owning feature development end‑to‑end, including architecture proposals, implementation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Contribute to our growing set of open‑source projects, including pgroll, pgstream, and forthcoming initiatives.
• Collaborate in multifunctional project teams (with frontend engineers, design, PM) to create new features or improve existing ones; optionally lead such projects.
• Participate in on‑call rotations to handle and resolve critical issues.

Tech Stack

• Golang
• Rust
• C
• GitHub Actions
• Kubernetes

Qualifications

• You are a self‑starter who can take responsibility.
• Significant experience developing performant systems‑level software, preferably in Golang.
• Exposure to infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub CI/CD, and cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.).
• Good knowledge of Postgres and experience with various types of databases.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with cloud services, especially serverless platforms.
• Experience working on open‑source projects.
• BSc/MSc in Computer Science.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Friendly, diverse, and inclusive work environment.
• 30 vacation days (not including local public holidays).
• Two months full paid parental leave.
• Flexibility, autonomy, and impact.
• Home‑office set‑up budget + co‑working space stipend.
• Support for continuous learning with budgets for conferences, courses, and books.
• Healthcare.
• Two company off‑sites per year, with partners and kids welcomed.
• Ample opportunity and support for career development with no boundaries to growth at Xata.

Company Culture

• Remote first, distributed around the world mainly in Europe and the east coast of the USA.
• Works asynchronously; weekly check‑ins, using GitHub, Notion, and Slack.
• Autonomy to lead features or projects and bring ideas to the table.
• Community‑driven and deeply cares about the success of users and customers.
• Team is diverse with over 40% women.
• Xata is female‑funded and leads as an all‑female board of directors.

EEO Statement

We care about diversity in tech. If you come from an underrepresented background in tech, we strongly encourage you to apply.